Anticircumvention Rulemaking Reply Comment, 2006

Before The Copyright Office Library of Congress In the Matter of ) ) Exemption to Prohibition on ) Docket No. RM 2005-11 Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems ) For Access Control Technologies ) Reply Comments of Professor Peter Decherney, Professor Katherine Sender and Dean Michael Delli Carpini, of the University of Pennsylvania I. Introduction Professors Peter Decherney, Katherine Sender and Dean Michael Delli Carpini of the University of Pennsylvania, submit these reply comments in response to the Office’s Notice of Inquiry for Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies (“Notice of Inquiry”). Our initial comment, comment number five, sought two exemptions for circumvention of technological access control measures, the first, for the purpose of creating video clip compilations for educational classroom use, and the second for preserving public access to works in the public domain. This reply comment supplements our initial comment by providing additional evidence and argument supporting the requested exemptions. The first exemption requested in our comment was for “audiovisual works included in the educational library of a college or university’s film or media studies department and that are protected by technological measures that prevent their educational use.” As noted, this exemption is needed by film and media studies professors who wish to use digital video ...