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Elkin-Koren on Anticircumvention Law and Consumers-as-Participants

By Zohar Efroni

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Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren has uploaded a paper titled Making Room for Consumer Under the DMCA, to be published soon in the BTLJ. The paper provides a terrific analysis and introduces an original perspective, proposing to perceive users of copyrighted works as participating consumers in information markets. This perspective underlies the argument for granting consumers more solid and meaningful protections within copyrights law, inter alia, a right to access cultural goods - despite DRMs. From the abstract:

Full post as published by Zohar Efroni’s blog on October 26, 2007 (boomark / email).

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