The Copyright Office will publish its final rule on exemptions...
The Copyright Office will publish its final rule on exemptions to anticircumvention rules for certain classes of copyrighted works in Friday’s Federal Register, the office said Thursday (http://bitly.com/S9OvTX). One part of the ruling drew immediate criticism from Public Knowledge: its…
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lack of a fair-use “space-shifting” exemption for transferring lawfully purchased DVDs to other devices that lack physical playback capabilities, such as tablets. That missing exemption “flies in the face of reality” and would mean that “every personal non-commercial space shift is a violation of copyright law,” including ripping a CD to an iPod, said Michael Weinberg, vice president of Public Knowledge’s Institute for Emerging Innovation, in an email statement.