Last week, the U.S. Copyright Office held the final hearings to decide whether there should be exemptions from the no-circumvention or no-hacking to access digital copyrighted works rule in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The Copyright Office does this every three years, and each time there is a predictable [...]
By Debbie Rose|2016-12-21T00:14:20-05:00June 1st, 2015|Blog|
The Librarian of Congress and the Register of Copyright conducted another thorough review of requested exemptions to the DMCA and issued six new well-reasoned exemptions. ACT believes the exemptions issued demonstrate the flexibility of the DMCA to adequately protect copyright owners, provide incentives for new innovation, and enable consumers and [...]