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17 USC Sec. 1002 - Incorporation of copying controls
(a) Prohibition on Importation, Manufacture, and Distribution. -
No person shall import, manufacture, or distribute any digital
audio recording device or digital audio interface device that does
not conform to -
(1) the Serial Copy Management System;
(2) a system that has the same functional characteristics as
the Serial Copy Management System and requires that copyright and
generation status information be accurately sent, received, and
acted upon between devices using the system's method of serial
copying regulation and devices using the Serial Copy Management
System; or
(3) any other system certified by the Secretary of Commerce as
prohibiting unauthorized serial copying.
(b) Development of Verification Procedure. - The Secretary of
Commerce shall establish a procedure to verify, upon the petition
of an interested party, that a system meets the standards set forth
in subsection (a)(2).
(c) Prohibition on Circumvention of the System. - No person shall
import, manufacture, or distribute any device, or offer or perform
any service, the primary purpose or effect of which is to avoid,
bypass, remove, deactivate, or otherwise circumvent any program or
circuit which implements, in whole or in part, a system described
in subsection (a).
(d) Encoding of Information on Digital Musical Recordings. -
(1) Prohibition on encoding inaccurate information. - No person
shall encode a digital musical recording of a sound recording
with inaccurate information relating to the category code,
copyright status, or generation status of the source material for
the recording.
(2) Encoding of copyright status not required. - Nothing in
this chapter requires any person engaged in the importation or
manufacture of digital musical recordings to encode any such
digital musical recording with respect to its copyright status.
(e) Information Accompanying Transmissions in Digital Format. -
Any person who transmits or otherwise communicates to the public
any sound recording in digital format is not required under this
chapter to transmit or otherwise communicate the information
relating to the copyright status of the sound recording. Any such
person who does transmit or otherwise communicate such copyright
status information shall transmit or communicate such information
accurately.
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(Added Pub. L. 102-563, Sec. 2, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4240.)
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SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in sections 114, 115, 1009, 1010 of
this title.
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