Thread: Intellectual Property Rights
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Old 10-01-2011, 05:38 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
DRM has nothing to do with copyright or intellectual property laws.
Kenny, can you elaborate? DRM (Digital Rights Management) is, I understand, specifically created to enforce the rights of copyright holders. Anti-circumvention laws, apart from being in the US's DMCA are also in the international WIPO Treaty, aren't they, as well as at least being suggested for inclusion in the ACTA? The latter two would seem to very much make them "international" in flavour, and therefore for enforcement by signatories in their copyright laws (as they are in the DMCA for example, as well as Australia's Copyright Act), thus seeming quite "on-topic" for the OP's original query.

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Marc
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