§1002 Incorporation of copying controls

Summary

People must not import, make, or sell digital audio recording devices or digital audio interface devices unless they use the Serial Copy Management System (SCMS), a system that works the same way as SCMS and passes accurate copyright and generation info between devices, or another system the Secretary of Commerce approves as stopping unauthorized serial copying. The Secretary of Commerce must create a process to check, when someone asks, that a system meets that “works like SCMS” rule. People also must not make, sell, or offer services mainly meant to bypass, turn off, or remove those copy-control programs or circuits. No one may label a digital musical recording with wrong information about its category code, copyright status, or generation status. Makers and importers do not have to put copyright status on recordings. Anyone who sends digital sound recordings to the public does not have to send copyright status, but if they do, it must be accurate.