hazel_wu used our news submit to tell us "Now it's our chance to voice DMCA." This is quite possible as the purpose of this proceeding is to determine if there are any copyrighted works or classes of works in which end users are likely to be adversely affected by added copyright protections. Specifically, are there circumstances that infringe upon our legal rights.
 The Copyright Office is conducting this rulemaking proceeding mandated by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which provides that the Librarian of Congress may exempt certain classes of works from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works.
The purpose of this proceeding is to
determine whether there are particular classes of works as to which users
are, or are likely to be, adversely affected in their ability to make
noninfringing uses due to the prohibition on circumvention of access
controls. This page contains links to published documents in this
proceeding.
The Notice of Inquiry in this third
anticircumvention rulemaking requests written comments from all interested
parties, including representatives of copyright owners, educational
institutions, libraries and archives, scholars, researchers and members of
the public, in order to elicit evidence on whether noninfringing uses of
certain classes of works are, or are likely to be, adversely affected by
this prohibition on the circumvention of measures that control access to
copyrighted works. |
This has always been a puzzling aspect when it comes to consumers rights, as it is understood that people can make backups of their purchases for personal use. Yet, at the same time, content providers have been allowed to add protection schemes to these very same products. So if the end user wishes to make a backup of a music CD that has for instance, MediaMax installed, then they must disable the protection first which is looked upon as a criminal act in the United States. This does not seem right.
Source: U.S. Copyright Office
