a) DMCA does not apply the same to all countries
b) With the way politics is going in USA I am not optimistic about DMCA reform until the heat-death of the universe.
b) With the way politics is going in USA I am not optimistic about DMCA reform until the heat-death of the universe.
In December 1996, the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted the WIPO Copyright Treaty which is principally aimed at adapting the legal paradigm of copyrights to new technology. Article 11 of the WCT obligates “contracting parties to provide adequate legal protection and effective legal remedies against the circumvention of effective technological measures that are used by authors in connection with the exercise of their rights under this Treaty or the Berne Convention and that restrict acts, in respect of their works, which are not authorized by the authors concerned or permitted by law.”
Yes. But not all countries interpret the restrictions on fair-use as aggressively as DMCA/1201 does.