Should Copyright Owners Have to Give Notice of Their Use of Technical Protection Measures?

INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 42 I. CONSUMER EXPECTATIONS AS TO DIGITAL CONTENT AND TPMS................................................................................................ 44 II. CONSUMER HARMS RESULTING FROM THE LACK OF EFFECTIVE NOTICE OF TPM RESTRICTIONS ....................................................... 46 A. Lack of Expected Interoperability.............................................. 47 B. Privacy Invasions....................................................................... 50 C. Security Vulnerabilities.............................................................. 51 D. Anti-Competitive Lock-out ......................................................... 53 E. Risks of Inadvertent Anti-Circumvention Liability .................... 54 F. Changing Terms and Discontinued Service............................... 57 III. THE TPM NOTICE PROBLEM HAS BEEN NOTICED........................... 59 IV. A SPECTRUM OF POLICY OPTIONS TO ADDRESS THE NOTICE PROBLEM .......................................................................................... 65 A. Trust the Market ........................................................................ 66 B. Trust Self-Regulation ................................................................. 68 C. An FTC Investigation and Report .............................................. 69 D. Conditioning Legal Protection for DRM on Adequate and Effective Notice .......................................................................... 70 E. Substantive Consumer Protection Laws .................................... 73 CONCLUSION........................................................................................... 73