[game_preservation] Online DRM

[Andrew Armstrong]

Hmm, looks like it. Still going to add it as information :)

Shame, everything will be illegal come October! :( Might need someone to 
write up the information regarding this sometime.

Andrew

Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue wrote:

> I -believe- that was a 2006 exemption that no one re-proposed, but I'm 

> not certain.

>

> On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:25:27 -0400, Andrew Armstrong 

> <andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:

>

>> Certainly point 2 below looks relevant, I'll add it to the groups 

>> resources.

>>

>>> 2. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that 

>>> have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware 

>>> as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the 

>>> purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published 

>>> digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be considered 

>>> obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a 

>>> work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer 

>>> reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.

>>

>>

>> Andrew

>>

>> Andreas Lange wrote:

>>> Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue schrieb:

>>>> The exemptions are on a 3-year cycle. More info can be found here:

>>>> http://www.copyright.gov/1201/

>>>

>>>

>>> Here:

>>> http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2006/index.html

>>> it's looks like, that the exemption is still valid (until Oct, 27. 

>>> 2009)?

>>> Andreas

>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:23:59 -0400, Andreas Lange 

>>>> <lange at digitalgamearchive.org> wrote:

>>>>

>>>>> Dear Rachel,

>>>>> thanks for the info, which I didn't know. When did that happen? 

>>>>> Does anyone know why? And what is the schedule for the next round 

>>>>> of DMCA evaluation after the hearings will have started in May?

>>>>> While the US law is not directly relevant for us in Germany, I 

>>>>> could use this DMCA exeption as a good reference for our local law 

>>>>> making process.

>>>>> Andreas

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