Anticircumvention Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Universal Studios v. Corley

Post publish date: January 23, 2002

Following the passing of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which implemented two WIPO treaties that included anti-circumvention language, this report examined the Second Circuit’s decision in Universal Studios v. Corley, where the court upheld a broad injunction prohibiting the public dissemination of a computer code used to descramble DVD encryption. The decision saved DMCA from its first constitutional challenge.