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Librarian of Congress Posts DMCA Exemptions

Posted by timothy on from the fair-use-bleeds-in-ditch dept.

MrNerdHair writes "The Librarian of Congress has posted a list of exemptions from the DMCA (also obtainable in PDF here.) Works falling in four 'classes' may be considered exempt from Section 1201 of the DMCA's prohibition against 'circumvention of a technological measure which effectively controls access to a work.' Among the list are blacklists of sites used in programs such as NetNanny and cracks to bypass dongles on abandonware. All in all, a very interesting read ..." Not just interesting: as Robin Gross writes, "Unfortunately, the ruling leaves the vast majority of consumers unable to access their own property, such as skipping commercials on DVDs, playing CDs in their PCs, and reading eBooks on PDA's without violating the DMCA." Update: 10/29 15:19 GMT by T : Take a look at Seth Finkelstein's site for an idea of how being pushy can sometimes be helpful; Finkelstein has loudly pushed for the importance of DMCA exemptions, including in Congressional testimony.

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  1. What are my rights? by Toasty16 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can I save this this list as an html file and burn it to CD and distribute it legally?

  2. ...and *really* bad HTML by Whizzmo2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Check this out:

    <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt;" ><a href="/fedreg/2002/67fr63578.html">Federal

    Register Notice </a><a href="/fedreg/2002/67fr63578.html">Seeking Written

    </a><a href="/fedreg/2002/67fr63578.html">Comments </a></p>

    <p style="margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="/fedreg/2002/67fr63578.html">(October

    15, 2002)</a> </p>


    I smell FrontPage :)

  3. Digital millennium Copyright act by umeboshi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i wonder--

    what is the smallest number that is copyrighted?
    what is the smallest number that can be copyrighted?
    if you add one to a copyrighted number, is it still protected by copyright ?

    if you take a's copyrighted number and keep adding ones to it until you get to b's copyrighted number, who is infringing on who's copyright (is it first come first serve).

    for an arbitrary copyrighted number, is there a range of numbers that is covered under the same protection as that number?