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List of Abbreviations




                 ASCAP                  American Society for Composers, Authors, and Publishers
                 AHRA                   Audio Home Recording Act (US, 1992)
                 BMI                    Broadcast Music, Inc.

                 CC                     Creative Commons
                 CCC                    Copyright Clearance Center

                 CJEU                   Court of Justice in the European Union
                 CMO                    Collective Management Organization
                 CONTU                  National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works

                 DAR                    Digital audio recorder
                 DMCA                   Digital Millennium Copyright Act (US, 1998)
                 DPRA                   Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act (US, 1995)

                 DSM Directive          The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, Directive (EU) 2019/790
                 eCommerce Directive    Electronic Commerce Directive 2000/31/EC (EU)
                 EFF                    Electronic Frontier Foundation

                 GDPR                   General Data Protection Regulation
                 ISP                    Internet service provider
                 MCN                    Multiple-Channel Network

                 OECD                   Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
                 P2P                    Peer-to-peer
                 PGC                    Professional-generated-content

                 RIAA                   Recording Industry Association of America
                 SCMS                   Serial Copy Management System

                 SRA                    Sound Recording Act (US, 1971)
                 ToU                    Terms of Use
                 ToS                    Terms of Service

                 TPM                    Technological protection measures
                 TRIPs                  The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
                 UGC                    User-generated content

                 VCR                    Video cassette recorder
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