[Air-L] EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers

[Johan Oomen]

Good evening,

This announcement from EFF might be of interest also to AIR-L.

³The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions
today² ...

³EFF also won a groundbreaking new protection for video remix artists
currently thriving on Internet sites like YouTube. The new rule holds that
amateur creators do not violate the DMCA when they use short excerpts from
DVDs in order to create new, noncommercial works for purposes of criticism
or comment if they believe that circumvention is necessary to fulfill that
purpose. Hollywood has historically taken the view that "ripping" DVDs is
always a violation of the DMCA, no matter the purpose.²

Read the entire announcement:
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26

Best wishes,
Johan


Johan Oomen
Head of Research
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
twitter: @johanoomen