New WIPO Treaties

  • HR 2281: WIPO Treaty Implementation Act

  • Technical protections of rights & CMI

    • Ban on technologies “primarily designed or produced” to circumvent technological copyright protection systems.
    • “circumvent” includes “decrypting an encrypted work” and “descrambling a scrambled work”
  • Performance rights in sound recordings

    • U.S. law requires only technical changes

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This page last updated: 18 Aug 2008