Said more directly, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) states that no one
should attempt to tamper with and break an access control mechanism that is put into
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place to protect an item that is protected under the copyright law. If you have created a
nifty little program that will control access to all of your written interpretations of the
grandness of the invention of pickled green olives, and someone tries to break this program
to gain access to your copyright-protected insights and wisdom, the DMCA could
come to your rescue.
When down the road you try to use the same access control mechanism to guard
something that does not fall under the protection of the copyright law??”let??™s say your
uncopyrighted 15 variations of a peanut butter and pickle sandwich??”you would find a
different result. If someone were willing to extend the necessary resources to break your
access control safeguard, the DMCA would be of no help to you for prosecution purposes
because it only protects works that fall under the copyright act.
This sounds logical and could be a great step toward protecting humankind, recipes,
and introspective wisdom and interpretations, but there are complex issues to deal with
under this seemingly simple law.
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