17 U.S.C. § 1202
Integrity of copyright management information
United States · Title 17 — COPYRIGHTS · Status: effective
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- 17 U.S.C. § 1202, Integrity of copyright management information, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/448578
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No person shall knowingly and with the intent to induce, enable, facilitate, or conceal infringement—
No person shall, without the authority of the copyright owner or the law—
As used in this section, the term “copyright management information” means any of the following information conveyed in connection with copies or phonorecords of a work or performances or displays of a work, including in digital form, except that such term does not include any personally identifying information about a user of a work or of a copy, phonorecord, performance, or display of a work:
In the case of an analog transmission, a person who is making transmissions in its capacity as a broadcast station, or as a cable system, or someone who provides programming to such station or system, shall not be liable for a violation of subsection (b) if—
If a digital transmission standard for the placement of copyright management information for a category of works is set in a voluntary, consensus standard-setting process involving a representative cross-section of broadcast stations or cable systems and copyright owners of a category of works that are intended for public performance by such stations or systems, a person identified in paragraph (1) shall not be liable for a violation of subsection (b) with respect to the particular copyright management information addressed by such standard if—
Until a digital transmission standard has been set pursuant to subparagraph (A) with respect to the placement of copyright management information for a category of works, a person identified in paragraph (1) shall not be liable for a violation of subsection (b) with respect to such copyright management information, if the activity that constitutes such violation is not intended to induce, enable, facilitate, or conceal infringement of a right under this title, and if—
the transmission of such information by such person would conflict with—
As used in this subsection—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Digital Millennium Copyright ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- A bill to make technical corrections in title 17, United States Code, and other laws.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally