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<div style="position:absolute; border: textbox 1px solid; writing-mode:lr-tb; left:138px; top:113px; width:335px; height:17px;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:17px">T</span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:13px">HE </span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:17px">D</span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:13px">IGITAL </span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:17px">M</span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:13px">ILLENNIUM </span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:17px">C</span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:13px">OPYRIGHT </span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:17px">A</span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:13px">CT OF </span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:17px">1998
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<br></span></div><div style="position:absolute; border: textbox 1px solid; writing-mode:lr-tb; left:72px; top:240px; width:93px; height:16px;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:15px">I</span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:12px">NTRODUCTION
<br></span></div><div style="position:absolute; border: textbox 1px solid; writing-mode:lr-tb; left:267px; top:214px; width:76px; height:13px;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:13px">December 1998
<br></span></div><div style="position:absolute; border: textbox 1px solid; writing-mode:lr-tb; left:108px; top:270px; width:396px; height:67px;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size:13px">The  Digital  Millennium  Copyright  Act  (DMCA)   was  signed  into  law  by
<br>President Clinton on October 28, 1998.  The legislation implements two 1996 World
<br>Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties:  the WIPO Copyright Treaty and
<br>the  WIPO  Performances  and  Phonograms  Treaty.    The  DMCA  also  addresses  a
<br>number of other significant copyright-related issues.
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<br></span></div><div style="position:absolute; border: textbox 1px solid; writing-mode:lr-tb; left:144px; top:351px; width:179px; height:13px;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size:13px">The DMCA is divided into five titles:  
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<br></span></div><div style="position:absolute; border: textbox 1px solid; writing-mode:lr-tb; left:179px; top:377px; width:324px; height:228px;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size:13px">Title I, the “</span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:13px">WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms
<br>Treaties  Implementation  Act  of  1998</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size:13px">,”  implements  the  WIPO
<br>treaties.
<br>Title II, the “</span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:13px">Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation
<br>Act</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size:13px">,” creates limitations on the liability of online service providers for
<br>copyright infringement  when engaging in certain types of activities.
<br>Title  III,  the  “</span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:13px">Computer  Maintenance  Competition  Assurance
<br>Act</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size:13px">,” creates an exemption for making a copy of a computer program
<br>by activating a computer for purposes of maintenance or repair.
<br>Title  IV  contains  six  </span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:13px">miscellaneous  provisions</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size:13px">,  relating  to  the
<br>functions of the Copyright Office, distance education, the exceptions
<br>in the Copyright Act for libraries and for making ephemeral recordings,
<br>“webcasting” of sound recordings on the Internet, and the applicability
<br>of collective bargaining agreement obligations in the case of transfers
<br>of rights in motion pictures.
<br>Title V, the “</span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:13px">Vessel Hull Design Protection Act</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size:13px">,” creates a new form
<br>of protection for the design of vessel hulls.
<br></span></div><div style="position:absolute; border: textbox 1px solid; writing-mode:lr-tb; left:107px; top:619px; width:396px; height:53px;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size:13px">This memorandum summarizes briefly each title of the DMCA.  It provides
<br>merely an overview of the law’s provisions; for purposes of length and readability a
<br>significant amount of detail has been omitted.  </span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Bold; font-size:13px">A complete understanding of any
<br>provision of the DMCA requires reference to the text of the legislation itself.
<br></span></div><div style="position:absolute; border: textbox 1px solid; writing-mode:lr-tb; left:144px; top:726px; width:228px; height:12px;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size:12px">Pub. L. No. 105-304, 112 Stat. 2860 (Oct. 28, 1998).
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