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[CITE: 17USC1002]

 
                          TITLE 17--COPYRIGHTS
 
          CHAPTER 10--DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDING DEVICES AND MEDIA
 
                     SUBCHAPTER B--COPYING CONTROLS
 
Sec. 1002. Incorporation of copying controls

    (a) Prohibition on Importation, Manufacture, and Distribution.--No 
person shall import, manufacture, or distribute any digital audio 
recording device or digital audio interface device that does not conform 
to--
        (1) the Serial Copy Management System;
        (2) a system that has the same functional characteristics as the 
    Serial Copy Management System and requires that copyright and 
    generation status information be accurately sent, received, and 
    acted upon between devices using the system's method of serial 
    copying regulation and devices using the Serial Copy Management 
    System; or
        (3) any other system certified by the Secretary of Commerce as 
    prohibiting unauthorized serial copying.

    (b) Development of Verification Procedure.--The Secretary of 
Commerce shall establish a procedure to verify, upon the petition of an 
interested party, that a system meets the standards set forth in 
subsection (a)(2).
    (c) Prohibition on Circumvention of the System.--No person shall 
import, manufacture, or distribute any device, or offer or perform any 
service, the primary purpose or effect of which is to avoid, bypass, 
remove, deactivate, or otherwise circumvent any program or circuit which 
implements, in whole or in part, a system described in subsection (a).
    (d) Encoding of Information on Digital Musical Recordings.--
        (1) Prohibition on encoding inaccurate information.--No person 
    shall encode a digital musical recording of a sound recording with 
    inaccurate information relating to the category code, copyright 
    status, or generation status of the source material for the 
    recording.
        (2) Encoding of copyright status not required.--Nothing in this 
    chapter requires any person engaged in the importation or 
    manufacture of digital musical recordings to encode any such digital 
    musical recording with respect to its copyright status.

    (e) Information Accompanying Transmissions in Digital Format.--Any 
person who transmits or otherwise communicates to the public any sound 
recording in digital format is not required under this chapter to 
transmit or otherwise communicate the information relating to the 
copyright status of the sound recording. Any such person who does 
transmit or otherwise communicate such copyright status information 
shall transmit or communicate such information accurately.

(Added Pub. L. 102-563, Sec. 2, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4240.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 114, 115, 1009, 1010 of this 
title.
