{"id":3367,"date":"2003-10-14T11:26:59","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T15:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2003\/10\/14\/no-exemptions-for-copy-protection-hu"},"modified":"2003-10-14T11:26:59","modified_gmt":"2003-10-14T15:26:59","slug":"no-exemptions-for-copy-protection-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2003\/10\/14\/no-exemptions-for-copy-protection-huh\/","title":{"rendered":"No Exemptions for Copy-Protection? Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Am I having a braino or is this assertion (from this Wired article<\/A>) incorrect?<\/P>
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“But the DMCA has no provision allowing exemptions in cases where software was designed with copy controls, such as encryption.<\/P>
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Even if the Copyright Office grants the Internet Archive’s request [for an access control exemption], under current circumstances archivists would only be able to back up software that had no built-in copy protections.”<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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The DMCA has no such exemption because there is no ban on circumvention of copy-protections.<\/STRONG> There is a ban on trafficking, but not on circumvention.<\/P>
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So what’s the problem with circumventing copy controls to archive?<\/P>
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Update: <\/STRONG>BTW, I’m not saying that they don’t need an exemption. They do, but for access controls. Wired’s assertion is bogus because they’re saying there’s no way you can get an exemption for circumvention copy controls, when you don’t even need one. But, do see Ernest’s comment about the conflation of access and copy controls.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Am I having a braino or is this assertion (from this Wired article) incorrect? “But the DMCA has no provision allowing exemptions in cases where software was designed with copy controls, such as encryption. Even if the Copyright Office grants the Internet Archive’s request [for an access control exemption], under current circumstances archivists would only be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}