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What is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?

The ‘Digital Millennium Copyright Act’, or DMCA for short, became law several years ago and expanded copyright to address several issues regarding computers and the internet. Some of the more important provisions of the DCMA are anti-circumvention provisions, the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, and the Computer Maintenance Competition Assurance Act.

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Can I copy information on a website?

You may copy or duplicate information on a website, but within limits. So long as the copy that you are making is for personal use, you do not further distribute the material, and you make no ‘for-profit’ use of the material, then you are in a safe haven under federal copyright law.

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