Governmental Deliberations on Exemptions to the DMCA’s Ban on Circumvention
Today, following a rulemaking proceeding required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and administered by the U.S. Copyright Office, the Librarian of Congress announced six classes of works that would be exempt from the DMCA’s general ban on circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works.
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MFIA Wins Appeal Seeking Access to Sealed Records
Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Practicum scored another victory when a New York state appellate court ruled unanimously that documents in a civil lawsuit alleging corporate corruption were improperly sealed, and clarified the scope of the constitutional access right in the New York courts. Congratulations to Patrick Kabat and the MFIA [...]
Innovate/Activate Unconference on September 24-25
Save the date for Innovate/Activate: An Unconference on Intellectual Property and Activism, scheduled for September 24-25, 2010 at New York Law School. Special thanks to Chris Wong for his efforts organizing this interesting event, presented by the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School and co-organized by the Information Society Project [...]
