January 22, 2003

Volunteers Needed to Fix the DMCA

The Copyright Office is soliciting comments on the DMCA´s anti-circumvention clause. The Copyright Office wants comments from people who tried to do something legal and useful but were locked out by access-control, because they are considering making exceptions to the anti-circumvention rule. EFF is recruiting volunteers to contribute to this:
  • People who have had bad experience with access-controls, to write comments
  • Editors, who will put the comments into the format the Copyright Office requires
  • Law-students, who will check the comments to make sure that the phraasing speaks directly to the questions the Copyright Office is asking
The commentors, editors and law-students will work together to produce a body of comments so effective that the Copyright Office can´t ignore it.
[EFF via boingboing]


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