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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 The anticircumvention regulations adopted by Congress as part of the DMCA need to be clarified to be more technologically sound and more sharply targeted to the problems the regulations were designed to address. A summary appears below. Certain key terms of the anticircumvention regulations should be defined more precisely. A notable example is the imprecise concept of "an effective technological protection measure." Is a measure that can be circumvented by anyone who has successfully completed a freshman-level college course in computer science an "effective technological protection measure"? What is the threshold for "effective"? Both content owners and potential circumventors need to be able to determine with reasonable effort whether the statute and whether a particular act of circumvention is legal cover a particular technological mechanism. Insofar as these issues are unclear, the statute should be clarified in consultation with appropriate technical experts. The...

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