Introductory paragraph to section on GPLv3§3.
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\section{GPLv3~\S3: What Hath DMCA Wrought}
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\section{GPLv3~\S3: What Hath DMCA Wrought}
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\label{GPLv3s3}
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\label{GPLv3s3}
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As discussed in \S~\ref{software-and-non-copyright} of this tutorial,
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\href{http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201}{17 USC~\S1201} and
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relate sections\footnote{These sections of the USC are often referred to as
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the ``Digital Millennium Copyright Act'', or ``DMCA'', as that was the name
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of the bill that so-modified these sections of the USC\@.} prohibits users
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from circumventing technological measures that implement DRM\@. Since this
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is part of copyright law and the GPL is primarily a copyright license, and
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since what the DMCA calls ``circumvention'' is simply ``modifying the
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software'' under the GPL, GPLv3 must disclaim such anti-circumvention
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provisions are not applicable to the GPLv3'd software.
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In the first
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What was the second paragraph of section 3 in Draft 2, concerning so-called
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anticircumvention law, has been broken up into two paragraphs. In the first
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paragraph we have replaced the reference to the Digital Millennium Copyright
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paragraph we have replaced the reference to the Digital Millennium Copyright
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Act, a United States statute, with a corresponding international legal
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Act, a United States statute, with a corresponding international legal
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reference to anticircumvention laws enacted pursuant to the 1996 WIPO treaty
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reference to anticircumvention laws enacted pursuant to the 1996 WIPO treaty
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