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DMCA Exemption Time

Posted by kdawson on from the circumvent-with-daring-and-whimsy dept.

jvillain writes "Contentagenda notes that the Copyright Office is taking submissions for exemptions to the DMCA. They do this every three years. There's a description of the six exemptions made last time to give you some ideas. So fire up the keyboard and let the Copyright Office know what needs to be changed. If you don't get in now, it'll be another three years before you can try again."

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  1. DRM Music where 'Managing Server' is Gone by Luthair · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With a number of well known brands closing their DRM servers (Walmart, Yahoo!), it ought to be legal to remove the DRM from the audio tracks which they sold. (Really, it ought to be mandatory for the company to do it.)

  2. Re:I love how... by WinPimp2K · · Score: 5, Insightful

    " It's not the government's place to encourage creativity"

    Umm.. better re-read the little phrase in the Constitution that authorizes copyrights and patents. You know, the bit about promoting progress in the useful arts and sciences. It explicitly is the govenrment's place to encourage creativity. It's a pity that the govenrment seems to limit said encouragement to creative accounting practices nowadays.

    Perhaps you meant it is not the government's place to discourage mindless banal entertainments?

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