EFF walks away from US Copyright Office's DMCA rulemaking proceeding

Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on December 2, 2005

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is walking away from the US Copyright Office's DMCA rulemaking proceeding.

EFF has participated in each of the two prior rulemakings (in 2000 and 2003), each time asking the Copyright Office to create exemptions for perfectly lawful consumer uses for digital media that are encumbered by DRM restrictions. For example, we asked that DVD owners be allowed to skip those "unskippable" ads at the beginning of DVDs. We asked that people who bought copy-protected CDs be allowed to get them to play on their computer. We asked that consumers be allowed to bypass region coding to play a DVD purchased in another part of the world. The Copyright Office rejected all of these proposals.

It looks like the EFF has given up fighting for consumers rights within this particular system and will be fighting the whole law.

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		EFF walks away from US Copyright Office's DMCA rulemaking proceeding Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on December 2, 2005 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is walking away from the US Copyright Office's DMCA rulemaking proceeding. EFF has participated in each of the two prior rulemakings (in 2000 and 2003), each time asking the Copyright Office to create exemptions for perfectly lawful consumer uses for digital media that are encumbered by DRM restrictions. For example, we asked that DVD owners be allowed to skip those "unskippable" ads at the beginning of DVDs. We asked that people who bought copy-protected CDs be allowed to get them to play on their computer. We asked that consumers be allowed to bypass region coding to play a DVD purchased in another part of the world. The Copyright Office rejected all of these proposals. It looks like the EFF has given up fighting for consumers rights within this particular system and will be fighting the whole law. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) \| Federal Copyright Law \| intellectual property rights \| US Copyright Office Stuart's blog Login or register to post comments 7485 reads
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