Paracopyright / Animesh Ballabh.

Paracopyright / Animesh Ballabh.

Journal article

1 volume ([6] pages) ; [28] cm.

GB 10

The provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act penalise both the circumvention of technical protection measures and supplying the means for such circumvention. These prohibitions are entirely separate from the exclusive rights under copyright, causing some commentators to dub the anti-circumvention right as paracopyright. Such paracopyright effectively grants copyright holders a sweeping new ability to impose terms of access on content users: consumers who access content without accepting the content owner's terms would violate the owner's paracopyright even if the material accessed is not itself copyrighted or copyrightable.

European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR) ; 2008, Vol. 30, No. 4, pages 138-144.

London, England : Sweet & Maxwell, 2008.

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