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| DATE | 2006-11-24 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Fair Use and the DMCA FORBES
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FORBES
Cell phone owners can now break locks to use their handsets with competing
carriers, while film professors have the right to copy snippets from DVDs
for educational compilations, the U.S. Copyright Office said Wednesday.
Other rights declared in the government's triennial review of the
1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act seek to improve access for the
blind and to obsolete works and let security researchers try to break
copy-protection technologies embedded in CDs
All told, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington approved six
exemptions, the most his Copyright Office has ever granted. For the first
time, the office gave an exemption to a group of users. Previously,
Billington took an all-or-nothing approach, making them difficult
to justify.
"I am very encouraged by the fact that the Copyright Office is willing
to recognize exemptions for archivists, cell phone recyclers and
computer security experts," said Fred von Lohmann, an attorney with
the civil-liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Frankly I'm
surprised and pleased they were granted."
But he said he was disappointed the Copyright Office rejected a number
of exemptions that could have benefited consumers, including one that
would let owners of DVDs legally copy movies for use on Apple Computer
Inc. (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s iPod and other music players.
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