Re: [NTLK] More on law

From: Stainless Steel Rat (ratinox_at_peorth.gweep.net)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 14:43:24 EDT


* eric engle <engleerica_at_yahoo.com> on Fri, 07 Sep 2001
| The most recent US copyright statute (Other than the
| 2000 DCMA) is the copyright act of 1978. Which totally
| displaces the common law of copyright.

Copyright Act of 1976, actually. And there is another Act of Congress ca
1985 that was required for the US to become fully compliant with Berne.

And it is DMCA -- Digital Millenium Copyright Act.

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