Reply Comment to Copyright Office
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Copyright’s Commons Berkman Center for Internet & Society 1563 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138 David O. Carson, Esq. General Counsel Copyright GC/I&R P.O. Box 70400 Southwest Station Washington, D.C. 20024 <1201@loc.gov> RE: Reply Comments, Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies. Federal Register Notice - 64 FR 226 Docket No. RM 99-7 INTRODUCTION Copyright’s Commons is a non-profit coalition of students, professors, archivists and other members of the public who are concerned about the preservation of the public domain against the overextension of copyright. We appreciate the opportunity to submit these reply comments in response to the Copyright Office’s Notice of Rulemaking dated November 24, 1999. The notice seeks public comment regarding exemptions to 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a), enacted in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA”). We share the Library Associations’ concerns (comment 162) that access controls may too easily become persistent use controls, in the hands of publishers. Because individuals, as much as libraries, are impacted by use restrictions in the guise of access controls, we agree with many of the earlier comments that all categories of works should be covered by this rulemaking, and propose that all non-infringing uses of lawfully obtained copies of ...
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