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Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative American Film Marketing Association American Intellectual Property Law Association American Library Association American National Standards Institute American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers American Society of Media Photographers Americans for Computer Privacy Association for Computing Machinery Association of American Law Libraries Association of American Publishers Association of American Universities Association of Research Libraries Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School Book And Serial Industry Communications

Issue Description: Technological and public policy issues concerning the use of technological measures by copyright owners and others who hold or are responsible for administering proprietary rights in content or information to control access to or use of such content or information, and matters concerning the defeat of such measures (such as encryption, scrambling, etc.), with particular emphasis on related provisions of the WIPO treaties and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). (A,H)