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...United States Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), an ill-advised grab bag of heavy-handed measures responding to very real fears of Internet-enabled music and video piracy. Since its passage, the uses of the DMCA by music and movie publishers have borne out many of the worries expressed by its critics. And the problem is headed into your dorm room, as a recent episode here at Harvard drives home all too clearly...
...fight to have the documents taken off the Internet, Diebold is citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998, which has been used most prominently against music sharers...
...DMCA treats universities as Internet service providers, and thus requires them to act in cases of possible copyright infringement or risk liability, said John G. Palfrey ’94, the executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School...
Slater and Palfrey questioned the invocation of the DMCA to force the removal of the documents, saying Diebold was misusing...
...DMCA uses four criteria to decide whether copyrighted material can be made freely available, Palfrey said. These include the purpose of the infringement, the nature of the material, the amount of material used and the potential effect on the documents’ market, he said...