DMCA Exceptions for 2012 through 2015

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Intro

On October 26, 2012, the Register of the Federal Copyright Office issued the triennial exemptions to the DMCA law. (PDF here) Every three years, the Register of the Copyright opens a proceeding whereby it accepts public arguments as to why certain anti circumvention processes should be allowed. It’s a flawed system but the only one we have in place.

The Register’s exemptions doesn’t mean that the disallowed techniques are not legal. Rather it blesses and sanitizes...