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If you write a huge javascript library and started selling it, then someone stole it and released it for free- you would issue a DMCA because you own that code. Just because its HTML doesnt make it 'not free'

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What you are describing is pre-DMCA copyright. What DCMA added was laws which add sanctions against reverse-engineering closed systems.

Amongst other things, including the new avenues for filing breaches of copyright against web sites and content providers.

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