Special Interest Group

Abstract

Interest group representation in United States identifies society's influence on the governing body and the policies decided upon in the legislative setting. The composition of interest groups has developed over time and has lead to study of three distinct approaches to the power the representational assemblies have. The growth and change of interests in the American state are dependent upon the structure between societal and government values.

Introduction

Congress proposed part 512 to reduce doubt for Service Providers

Congress proposed the DMCA to “facilitate the robust development and world-wide expansion of online business, communications, research, development, and education . . . .” S. REP. NO. 105-190, at 1-2.

“[B]y limiting the liability of service providers, the DMCA ensures that the efficiency of the Internet will extend to improve and that the variety and value of services on the Internet will extend to expand.” Id. at 8.

In order to complete these goals, assembly conceived a set of “safe harbors” conceived to “provide 'greater certainty to service providers in relation to their lawful exposure for infringements that may occur in the course of their activities.'” Ellisonv. Robertson, 357 F.3d 1072, 1076. Congress concentrated on creating a more predictable lawful environment because it identified that:

Without clarification of their liability, service providers may hesitate to make the essential investment funds into in the expansion of the speed and capability of the Internet. In the average course of their procedures service providers must engage in all kinds of actions that reveal them to promise copyright infringement liability. For example, service providers should make innumerable electrical devices copies by easily conveying data over the Internet. Certain devices exact replicates are made to pace up the delivery of data to users. Other electrical devices copies are made in order to own www websites. Many service providers enlist in directing users to sites in response to inquiries by users or they volunteer sites that users may find attractive. Some of these sites might comprise infringing material. In short, by limiting the liability of service providers, the DMCA ascertains that the efficiency of the Internet will continue to advance and that the variety and value of services on the Internet will extend to expand. S. REP. NO. 105-190, at 8.

Thesis Statement

Congress ascertained that the application of ambiguous copyright doctrines to new Internet technologies would put service providers in an unrealistic position. Service providers necessarily must make, manipulate, and transmit multiple copies of content at several stages of their technical processes. These multiple exact replicates might arguably infringe one or more of the display, performance, circulation, reproduction, or other privileges in copyrighted content.

During the council hearings preceding the DMCA, Roy Neel, President and chief of the US Telecom Association stated the difficulty as follows:

We have no way of understanding what those trillions of data over our networks. We simply will not do it, and to be held liable for those transmissions is easily absurdity and it will tie us up in court, conceive more litigation ...