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streaming of radio stations over the Internet is also impaired by the DMCA

streaming of radio stations over the Internet is also impaired by the DMCA. For example: No playing an artist twice in a row. No pre-announce of songs. No Program Director of a radio station. especially in a major market, is going to alter his programming to fit such restrictions.

See also Talk:Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act for the stuff relating to designated agents (etc) removed from this article by Martin. It now doesn't reference Wikipedia (good) but there is some duplication with Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, so ideally someone with legal knowledge would have to merge.

Anti-circumvention v. Circumvention in background section?

Am confused by this sentence in the background section: “ The WIPO Copyright Treaty identified numerous electronic works as eligible for copyright protection, and stated that anti-circumvention of technology measures used to secure electronic works was to be prohibited. It’s not that anti-circumvention was to be prohibited, right? Circumvention was? Emtwelp (talk) 17:21, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, just had the wording wrong. --Masem (t) 17:42, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome, am new to the topic so was confused! Thanks for all your work on this topic. Emtwelp (talk) 18:20, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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117.97.213.196 (talk) 11:31, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Shadow311 (talk) 14:35, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]