O'Melveny & Myers LLP Legal Source Available for Commentary On the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Appeal Case Going to Court Today.Technology, Business and Legal Reporters NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2001 Dale Cendali, Co-Chair of O'Melveny & Myers Myers can refer to: People
Property Practice, Available to Provide Commentary and Insight Issue: A federal appeals court in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of will discuss the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law which implements two 1996 WIPO treaties. It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly (DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) A U.S. law enacted in late 1998 that provides penalties for developing hardware or software that overrides copy protection schemes for digital media. ) today when it hears arguments in the case of the Motion Picture Association of America v. Eric Corley of 2600.com. Corley posted links on his Web site to software that allows users to copy DVDs. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was passed in 1998 to protect movies and music in the digital era. In 1999, 2600.com included DeCSS, which descrambles DVDs, in its story on the creator of the software, and linked to other sites posting it. 2600.com was sued by major movie studios for violating the DMCA. In August, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan Lewis Kaplan is an American violinist. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey. He resides on the Upper West Side in New York City with his wife, Adria. He is a senior professor in violin and chamber music at the Juilliard School in New York. ruled for the studios and ordered 2600.com not to post or link to DeCSS. An appeal was filed in January and the case is going to court today. Discussion Topics: Ms. Cendali is able to provide insight on such issues as: -- Why is this decision so important? -- What is the legal definition of "fair use" and how does it apply to this case? -- Can 2600.com legally claim First Amendment protection? -- How does this case compare to the highly publicized Napster case? Source: Dale Cendali is a partner at the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers and is Co-Chair of the firm's Intellectual Property practice group. She counsels clients, including several major motion picture studios, regarding the acquisition and retention of intellectual property rights (including Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the issues). Cendali also litigates disputes concerning such rights for leading media, computer and entertainment companies. |
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