LOC DMCA Exemptions Posted
BillyGOTO
billy at dadadada.net
Tue Oct 28 13:45:30 PST 2003
White smoke from the chimney of the L of C...
As of now, it is now explicitly legal to decrypt the blacklists of
NetNanny - style applications.
As of now, it is now explicitly legal to RevEng abandonware dongles.
Also legal to break copy-restriction schemes on abandonware.
The most surprising exemption is for eBook decription. It is only
allowed if you can't otherwise render the text into a 'specialized
format'.
----- Forwarded message from Phil Gengler <phil at codeallday.com> -----
Within the last 5 minutes, the LOC website
(http://www.copyright.gov/1201) posted the determinations for DMCA
exemptions from the May hearings.
Interesting read, if nothing else. 4 classes of works were exempted,
and for several that weren't, there's an explanation of why.
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