Library of Congress determinations on exemptions to anti-circumvention devices

As part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Congress enacted a broad prohibition against the circumvention of technological measures designed to control access to copyrighted works. As part of the law, the Copyright Office was ordered to hold hearings on what exemptions there should be, and make recommendations to the the Librarian of Congress to promulgate regulations establishing those exemptions.

Today, the Librarian published its 20-page determination and final rule. For convenience, I've put the document on my web site, in text format (shamelessly lifted from the Copyright Office site) and the more readable but proprietary PDF format (equally shamelessly lifted from the GPO site). URLs are:

   http://www.tjc.com/copyright/65fr64555.html    http://www.tjc.com/copyright/65fr64555.pdf

For those bottom-liners among us, the only two exemptions are:

     


         (1) Compilations consisting of lists of websites blocked by 

     filtering software applications; and


         (2) Literary works, including computer programs and databases, 

     protected by access control mechanisms that fail to permit access 
     because of malfunction, damage or obsoleteness.

Cite:
  65 Fed. Reg. 64555, 64574 (Oct. 27, 2000) (adding 37 C.F.R. 201.40)

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