Some European scholars are proposing a critical analysis of the anti-circumvention provisions for technological protection measures and digital rights management systems enacted in the United States and in Europe, arguing that they compromise the consumer’s capacity to exercise legitimate rights, such as the private use exemption, by giving content owners extralegal protection for their works. They also suggest seeing technological protection measures as a souped-up standard form contract, and demonstrates how consumer protection law is able to solve, even if only partially, the problem of safe diffusion of digital media protecting weak contractual party against the use of agreements that override private use exceptions and other consumer rights granted under E.U. and U.S. law.
- Report on "Digital Rights Management and Consumer Acceptability”
- Study on Consumer protection and Copyright Law
- Working paper on Privatization of Digital Content and Consumer Protection in the Information Society
- DRM and contract terms