10 Years Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Success or Failure? October 14, 2008

BroadbandCensus.com presents the inaugural Broadband Breakfast Club event:

10 Years Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Success or Failure?

Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on October 12, 1998, and it was signed by President Clinton on October 28, 1998. The new law, widely known as the DMCA, was designed to usher in a new phase of the United States' copyright laws.

The DMCA did this through two key provisions. The anti-circumvention provision was designed to offer protection to copyright holders who encrypted their works by criminalizing the act of cracking those codes. The service provider liability provision was designed as a compromise between content owners and internet providers. It created today's framework for "notice and takedown" currently at issue in a variety of current lawsuits, including Viacom v. YouTube.

Ten years later, how well has the DMCA worked? This event, the kick-off event in the monthly "Broadband Breakfast Club" hosted by BroadbandCensus.com, is designed to bring several key stakeholders together to share perspectives on this topic:

* Drew Clark, Executive Director, BroadbandCensus.com (Moderator)
* Mitch Glazier, Senior Vice President, Government Relations, Recording Industry Association of America
* Michael Petricone, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association
* Wendy Seltzer, Practitioner in Residence, Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic, American University Washington College of Law
* Emery Simon, Counselor, Business Software Alliance

Breakfast for registrants will be available beginning at 8:00 a.m., and the forum itself will begin at around 8:30 a.m., and conclude promptly at 10 a.m. Seated attendance is limited to the first 45 individuals to register for the event.

Future events in the Broadband Breakfast Club monthly series will feature other key topics involved in broadband technology and internet policy.

For more information about BroadbandCensus.com, or about the Broadband Breakfast Club at Old Ebbitt Grill - on the second Tuesday of each month - please visit http://broadbandcensus.com, or contact Drew Clark at 202-580-8196.

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