§1002 Incorporation of Copying Controls

Summary

People may not import, make, or sell digital audio recording devices or digital audio interface devices unless the devices follow the Serial Copy Management System, follow a system that works the same way and shares accurate copyright and generation info between devices, or follow another system the Secretary of Commerce approves as stopping illegal serial copying. The Secretary of Commerce must create a way to check, if someone asks, whether a system meets that “works the same way” standard. People also may not make, sell, or offer services whose main job is to get around those copying controls. No one may put wrong category, copyright, or generation information onto a digital musical recording. Makers or importers are not required to add copyright-status info. Anyone who sends digital sound recordings does not have to send copyright-status info, but if they do it must be correct.