[game_preservation] Online DRM

[Andreas Lange]

Henry Lowood schrieb:

> 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.


A question to the procedure: Is it necessary, to propose that an 
exemption should be keept every three years again after it was granted 
first? Or does it remain automaticly until someone proposes that it 
should be canceled?

Andreas


> 

> 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> 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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