2. the was passed to give significant protection to owners of copyrights in digital information
Digital Millennium Copyright Act The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures (commonly known as digital rights management or DRM) that control access to copyrighted works. It also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself. In addition, the DMCA heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet.[1][2] Passed on October 12, 1998, by a unanimous vote in the United States Senate and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998, the DMCA amended Title 17 of the United States Code to extend the reach of copyright, while limiting the liability of the providers of online services for copyright infringement by their users.
Copyright Act of 1909 The Copyright Act of 1909 was a landmark statute in United States statutory copyright law. It became Pub.L. 60â€“349 on March 4, 1909 by the 60th United States Congress, and it went into effect on July 1, 1909.[1] The Act was repealed and superseded by the Copyright Act of 1976, but it remains effective for copyrighted works created before the Copyright Act of 1976 went into effect in January 1, 1978. It allowed for works to be copyrighted for a period of 28 years from the date of publication. It extended the term from 28 years with a renewal of 14 years (effective as of the Copyright Act of 1831) to 28 years with a renewal of 28 years, for a maximum of 56 years.