The DMCA provides a circumvention ban (<A HREF="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/1201.html">17 USC §1201</a cornell.edu>) that applies to "a work protected under this title." Works first published before <A HREF="http://everything2.com/?node=sonny+bono+copyright+extension+act">January 1, 1923</a everything2.com>, are no longer "protected under this title", and if even one DVD of a public-domain silent movie is released, then DeCSS has a substantial non-infringing use.
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DMCA is toothless without the Bono Act
Posted by: tepples on July 19, 2002 07:20 AMThe DMCA provides a circumvention ban (<A HREF="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/1201.html">17 USC §1201</a cornell.edu>) that applies to "a work protected under this title." Works first published before <A HREF="http://everything2.com/?node=sonny+bono+copyright+extension+act">January 1, 1923</a everything2.com>, are no longer "protected under this title", and if even one DVD of a public-domain silent movie is released, then DeCSS has a substantial non-infringing use.
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