A Decade Under the DMCA

Presented at The Last HOPE (2008), July 20, 2008, 10 a.m. (60 minutes).

In October 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed by President Clinton. Since that time, the DMCA was used to prevent free speech and reverse engineering. The DMCA offers patent-like protection although this is a copyright law. Many people have been adversely affected by the DMCA. Cases will be discussed and information regarding filing counter notifications will be presented.

Presenters:

• Marcia Wilbur
  Marcia Wilbur is author of DMCA: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and served as a committee member of the Free Software Foundation's Digital Speech Project. She also worked with Daniel Orr on drafting the Electronic Frontier Foundation's DMCA FAQ for the DMCA Blog. She holds an AAS in computer science, a BS in technical communications and an MS in technology from Arizona State University. The topic of her final applied project was the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act.

Links:

• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Last HOPE (2008)/The Last HOPE (2008) - A Decade Under the DMCA.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QQ8jW_Cev8

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