DiMA's Position on Copyright and Royalties

Both Section 115 and Section 114 are prime examples of the patchwork nature of the Copyright Act, a law that was essentially enacted in 1909 and simply periodically amended whenever technological or special interest issues became of a great enough concern.  The resulting law is a set of statutes that fail to represent a cohesive approach to the intellectual property concepts they govern and which too clearly address a few particular technological and/or business conditions that were present at the time of enactment and/or amendments. The dated and periodically-attended-to nature of these laws makes it particularly difficult to apply the specifics of the statutes to the modern world of digital media and widespread interconnectivity provided by the internet.

DiMA’s core mission is to address these problems by a) advocating for revision and updating of the Copyright Act in a way that is progressive and technologically neutral, so that it will more appropriately address and be applicable to technology and business currently and in the future

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and also b) in the interim, assisting DiMA member companies in navigating the current laws so that technologies and the businesses they inspire can move forward, in the present environment.

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