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thanks, Seth

October 30, 2003 7:32 AM - comments (7)

The Copyright Office just released its report (pdf) on exemptions from DMCA restrictions. There's good news and bad news. Let's start with the good. The Office granted four exemptions. One of the four was an exemption for censorware. This exemption was argued for strongly by a number of people, but none argued it more effectively than Seth Finkelstein. Based largely on his testimony, "compilations consisting of lists of Internet locations blocked by commercially marketed filtering software applications that are intended to prevent access to domains, websites or portions of websites, but not including lists of Internet locations blocked by software applications that operate exclusively to protect against damage to a computer or computer network or lists of Internet locations blocked by software applications that operate exclusively to prevent receipt of email" are exempt from the DMCA.

I've been an admirer of Seth's work for a long time, and as this shows, with good reason. Thanks, Seth.

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Comments (7)

October 30, 2003 11:06 AM charlie mac:

Okay... so... was the bad news also "The Office granted four exceptions" (implying only)?

October 30, 2003 1:28 PM Matthew Saroff:

They ruled against Lexmark's "Screw the consumer over the printer cartridge" suit.

October 30, 2003 7:54 PM lessig:

more on the bad news next week.

October 31, 2003 8:04 PM Michael Feldman:

Will we finally see Seth smile?

November 1, 2003 11:30 AM François-Régis Levol:

There is a problem with the pdf file of the recommendation , the letters are wrongly typed and the document is not published yet in HTML version on http://www.copyright.gov/1201/

Is the recommendation scrambled only for french users of Acrobat Reader and can I circumvent this technical malfunction ?

"DMCA" would make a good parody of "YMCA" of the Village People. Vicky Bennett could do it under a Creative Commons licence.

November 2, 2003 11:49 PM Seth Finkelstein:

THANKS!

Michael - I was smiling when I was quoted in "Wired News" : "How sweet it is"

Francois - 1) Make sure you have the very latest version of Acrobat
2) Jonathan Watterson wrote DMCA / YMCA
3) I wrote YesterDMCA (e.g. "Suddenly, I'm not allowed to speak in C")

April 16, 2008 3:58 PM wow power leveling:

Okay... so... was the bad news also "The Office granted four exceptions" (implying only)?

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