Re: [dvd-discuss] Copyright Office to Consider Anticircumvention Exemptions

[Eric Seppanen <eds(at)reric.net>]

I don't know if I believe that they're strictly limiting themselves to 
classes of works because of the wording of the #2 exemption:

     (2) Literary works, including computer programs and databases,
protected by access control mechanisms that fail to permit access
because of malfunction, damage or obsoleteness."

I could copy that style and say

     (x) Literary works protected by access control mechanisms that deny 
access due to the user's location or region.
or
     (y) Literary works protected by access control mechanisms that deny 
access because of reasons other than the user's posession of a legal copy 
of the work.


On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 01:27:16PM -0700, Richard Hartman wrote:
> Then Eric's wish exception of "- any protection measure 
> that denies access based on information other 
> than the user's posession of a legal copy of the work"
> would be disqualified because it does not designate
> a class of work, it designates a protection measure.
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Richard M. Hartman
> hartman@onetouch.com
> 
> 186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James S. Tyre [mailto:jstyre@jstyre.com]
> > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 1:18 PM
> > To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Copyright Office to Consider
> > Anticircumvention Exemptions
> > 
> > 
> > At 01:04 PM 10/11/2002 -0700, Richard Hartman wrote:
> > >Are the "classes" classes of works, or classes
> > >of circumstances?
> > 
> > 
> > Classes of works.
> > 
> > For those considering commenting, it would be helpful to 
> > review the results 
> > of the last rulemaking round, learn from it.
> > http://www.loc.gov/copyright/fedreg/65fr64555.html
> > 
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