Intellectual Property on the NII (the “White Paper”)

  • Make every “transmission” a “distribution”, including every copying of data

    • Exclude digital works from “first sale” doctrine
  • Maintain strict liability for ISPs/OSPs

  • Protections for “copyright management information”

    • Ban on technologies that counter protection methods & CMI
    • Effect on decryption?
  • Change the contributory infringement standard

    • A prohibition on reverse-engineering?

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Brian A. LaMacchia
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