At 04:36 PM 2/13/02 -0000, Luis.F.Correia wrote: >Can you explain me in laymen terms what DCMA stands for? >I know it means Digital Copyright Millenium Act but what is this exactly?
DMCA, not DCMA. = Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It is a US law that grants certain rights to copyright holders with respect to reproduction of their copyrighted materials in digital form. I've phrased it so vaguely because that's all a *layman* can honestly do. There is a lot of argument about the meaning and implications of the DMCA. While I'm not neutral on the policy issues there, this list isn't an appropriate place to re-hash a well-publiciaed debate. The usual search engines turn up many relevant links when searched on "DMCA". >I also know that, to the Portuguese law, software patents do not exist. But DMCA is about copyright, not patents. -- ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
