[DMCA-Activists] DMCA Rulemaking Issued - 4 Exemptions

[Seth Johnson]

(Forwarded from Berkman Center DVD Discussion list)

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From: "James S. Tyre" <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:31:15 -0800
Subject: [dvd-discuss] DMCA Rulemaking issued - 4 exemptions

Full rulemaking at
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/fedreg-notice-final.pdf

The exemptions, from 
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/librarian_statement_01.html
    1.  Compilations consisting of lists of Internet locations blocked 
by commercially marketed filtering software applications that are 
intended to prevent access to domains, websites or portions of 
websites, but not including lists of Internet locations blocked by 
software applications that operate exclusively to protect against 
damage to a computer or computer network or lists of Internet 
locations blocked by software applications that operate exclusively to 
prevent receipt of email.
    2. Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due 
to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete.
    3. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that 
have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware 
as a condition of access.
    4. Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing 
ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made 
available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent 
the enabling of the ebook's read-aloud function and that prevent the 
enabling of screen readers to render the text into a specialized 
format.


See also the Register of Copyrights' recommendations to the Librarian
of Congress (198 pages) at 
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/registers-recommendation.pdf

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