[game_preservation] Online DRM

[Henry Lowood]

Devin,

No, the act of copying does not become illegal, I am pretty sure of 
that.   All the exemption provided was the right to make copies.  The 
copies are made now, they do not have to be deleted.

That said, I can only agree with you: DMCA + Bono provides us with a 
broken system.

Henry

Devin Monnens wrote:

> So this also means that any archival work that was done becomes 

> illegal after the exemption ends? So if somebody did a digital backup 

> of a game under this exhemption, they'd have to delete it? That 

> doesn't sound like a good system...

>

> -Devin

>

> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu 

> <mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>> wrote:

>

>     Correct.  The original ruling was in 2000, then the renewal was in

>     2003 and 2006.  But this three-year cycle is really impossible to

>     maintain, because someone needs to track the issue and organize

>     the effort.  Inevitably, the interested parties lose track of the

>     issue.  It's crazy to have such a short-term renewal cycle.

>

>

>     Henry

>

>     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 <mailto: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

>                     <mailto: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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