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Archiving vs. DMCA
Posted by Rebecca Bolin on Thursday, August 12 @ 19:08:43 EDT Media Regulation
Seems the Internet Archive, the fine group that brought you the Way Back Machine, is claiming legal problems with keeping archives of software. The DMCA allows no circumvention to make copies, even with a fair use of the underlying copyrighted material, which IA would claim. This means that the lifetime of the storage media will be the lifetime of the software, unless someone can archive it. Library of Congress, where is your software archive? Or if that doesn't work why not carve out a DMCA exception for this case? The IA is pushing for changes with the Copyright Office to solve this problem. For now, they have a narrow exception--one of the two allowed at the last DMCA hearing. They have documented this struggle here.
 
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