EFF "Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)" Archive

Directory of information on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (a.k.a. WIPO copyright treaty implementation bill), 1998-2000

EFF "Intellectual Property: DVD CCA (Content Control Association) Case" Archive

DVD Content Control Association's court case attempting to censor and punish people for reverse-engineering the encryption system used for decoding content on Digital Versatile Discs (mislabeled Digital Video Discs by the DVD CCA organization). DVD CCA boldly and unbelievably alleges that efforts to make DVDs interoperable with the open-source Linux operating system, via the "DeCSS" software at issue in the case, violates movie industry trade secrets under Calif. law. See also the related MPAA DVD cases (below).

EFF "Intellectual Property: MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) DVD Cases" Archive

Motion Picture Association of America members (major movie studios) and their lawsuits against a variety of parties making the DeCSS DVD encryption decoder available for download (software that enables legally-owed Digital Versatile Disc audiovisual content to be played on the open-source Linux operating system). The MPAA members make incredible claims of illegal circumvention of copy protection measures (weak DVD encryption that was reverse engineered in the creation of DeCSS), basing these claims on unconstitutional provisions of the 1999 Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). See also the related DVD CCA case, above.

EFF "Intellectual Property - Video and DVD" Archive

Information on criminal prosecutions and investigations relating to the DeCSS DVD decoder (incl. the Jon Johansen case, Norway, 2000).

EFF "Intellectual Property - Video and DVD" Archive

Information on the lawsuit of the MPAA against Record TV in which The MPAA claims that Record TV's time shifting of viewing programs is illegal. (filed June 15, 2000)