DMCA Comment Period on Changes to the Law

Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies was published in the Federal Register http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2005/70fr57526.html for comments on proposed changes to the law.

 

The Copyright Office is requesting from the public reasons that exemptions should be granted for people to circumvent the digital protection placed on items in regards to fair use. Due to the wording of the law that states " “No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.” "

 

That effectively means that if someone puts ANY protection method - even if a password that is one character long - and a person figures out the password and accesses it and makes a copy for a backup without authorization - you could be jailed for breaking the DMCA law.