Software as protest: The unexpected resiliency of U.S.-based DeCSS posting and linking

Information Society

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 101-116

  Eschenfelder, Kristin R ^a,c   Desai, Anuj C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

Circumvention; Code as speech; Copyright; Corley; DeCSS; DMCA; Fair use; Global data flows; Internet regulation; Reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442570861     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240490422987     Document Type: Article

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