[DMCA-Activists] DMCA 1201 Anti-circumvention rulemaking COMMENTS POSTED

[Seth Finkelstein]

http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2006/comments/index.html

  The U.S. Copyright Office - Anticircumvention Rulemaking [1] (for
  the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) has now posted the Comments on
  Anticircumvention Exemptions [2]:

    Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of
    Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works

    The Copyright Office received 74 comments in response to its
    notice of inquiry in this rulemaking.  A significant number of
    these comments do not adhere to the requirements of the Office's
    Notice of Inquiry.  For example, a number of commenters have
    failed to propose a "class of works," have proposed broad classes
    without factual support for such a class, have not identified a
    causal connection between a noninfringing use and the prohibition
    on circumvention, or have not identified an access control that
    would implicate the prohibition of circumvention. While the value
    of such comments to this statutory inquiry is questionable, the
    Copyright Office has decided to post these comments.

    It should be noted, however, that the reply comment period is an
    opportunity to be responsive to the initial proposals, and the
    Office will only consider reply comments that provide additional
    facts and/or arguments in further support of or in opposition to
    genuine proposals for exemptions contained in the comments that
    appear below.  The only mechanism for raising new proposed
    exemptions at this time is the discretionary petition process
    discussed in the last paragraph of the Notice of Inquiry [3].

  1. http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
  2. http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2006/comments/index.html
  3. http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2005/70fr57526.html

-- 
Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  address@hidden  http://sethf.com
Infothought blog - http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/
Interview: http://sethf.com/essays/major/greplaw-interview.php