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Copy Control

By Victoria Slind-Flor

When Static Control Components Inc., a small, family-owned printing-supply business, was sued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Seth Greenstein was surprised. The 49-year-old partner in the Washington, DC, office of Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery thought he had the DMCA down cold. Still, it took him nearly a year to get an injunction against the company lifted.

“I was working with the DMCA from the days when it was an early glimmer in the mind of the Clinton administration's information superhighway task force,” Greenstein says. “I was very surprised to see it misused this way.”

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