Category Archives: dmca

DMCA hearings: K-12 education

Posted on May 27, 2015 by rtushnet

Copyright Office: Jacqueline Charlesworth Michelle Choe Regan Smith Cy Donnelly Steve Ruhe John Riley Stacy Cheney (NTIA)   Proposed Class 2: Audiovisual works – educational uses – primary and secondary schools (K-12) This proposed class would allow kindergarten through twelfth-grade … Continue reading →

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DMCA hearings: MOOCs

Posted on May 27, 2015 by rtushnet

Copyright Office: Jacqueline Charlesworth Michelle Choe Regan Smith Cy Donnelly Steve Ruhe John Riley Stacy Cheney (NTIA)   10:45am-12:15pm: Proposed Class 3: Audiovisual works – educational uses – massive open online courses (“MOOCs”) This proposed class would allow students and … Continue reading →

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DMCA hearing: university exemption

Posted on May 27, 2015 by rtushnet

Copyright Office: Jacqueline Charlesworth Michelle Choe Regan Smith Cy Donnelly Steve Ruhe John Riley Stacy Cheney (NTIA)   Proposed Class 1: Audiovisual works – educational uses – colleges and universities This proposed class would allow college and university faculty and … Continue reading →

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DMCA hearings, phone/tablet unlocking

Posted on May 26, 2015 by rtushnet

Copyright Office: Jacqueline Charlesworth Michelle Choe Regan Smith Cy Donnelly Steve Ruhe John Riley Stacy Cheney (NTIA)   Proposed Class 11-12: Unlocking – wireless telephone handsets and tablets Proposed class 11 would allow the unlocking of wireless telephone handsets. “Wireless … Continue reading →

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DMCA hearings, security research, opponents

Posted on May 26, 2015 by rtushnet

Security research continued, opponents   Copyright Office: Jacqueline Charlesworth Michelle Choe Regan Smith Cy Donnelly Steve Ruhe John Riley Stacy Cheney (NTIA)   Opponents: Christian Troncoso, BSA | The Software Alliance: we support good faith security testing. We are surrounded … Continue reading →

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DMCA hearings: security research proponents

Posted on May 26, 2015 by rtushnet

Library of Congress DMCA exemption hearings   Proposed Class 25: Software – security research This proposed class would allow researchers to circumvent access controls in relation to computer programs, databases, and devices for purposes of good-faith testing, identifying, disclosing, and … Continue reading →

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DMCA hearings, LA: Guest post by Betsy Rosenblatt

Posted on May 26, 2015 by rtushnet

Guest post from Betsy Rosenblatt   The triennial Copyright Office DMCA exemption hearings began on May 19 for three days in Los Angeles before moving next week to Washington, D.C. for four more days.  I attended the first two days, … Continue reading →

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EFF/OTW DMCA reply comments

Posted on May 4, 2015 by rtushnet

Well, that’s an alphabet soup.  Here are our reply comments to the opposition from DVDCSS and the MPAA et al. Notably, while opponents assert that remix videos are infringing, they don’t oppose extension of the existing exemptions. http://tushnet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

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The cartoonist has no idea how fair use works

Posted on March 26, 2015 by rtushnet

Story here. http://tushnet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

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Public comments on proposed DMCA classes

Posted on February 10, 2015 by rtushnet

Public comments on the proposed DMCA classes are up. I had the great privilege of working with EFF’s Corynne McSherry on the noncommercial remix exemption.  The comment of EFF and the Organization for Transformative works is here.  I believe we … Continue reading →

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