Some Proponents of Copyright Office's Proposed New Section 1201 Exemptions Plan Not To File Additional Comments
Multiple proponents of the U.S. Copyright Office’s proposed new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s Section 1201 told us Friday they aren’t planning to file reply comments on the proposals, while others indicated they are planning to file comments…
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but hadn’t completed work on them by our deadline. Comments were due after our deadline Friday. The Free Software Foundation and Music Library Association had argued in favor of the proposed exemptions in comments filed in February (see 1502110062), but said they didn’t plan to file reply comments. The New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute planned to file reply comments in favor of proposed exemptions for software and medical device security research, Senior Policy Counsel Laura Moy said. She said she also planned to testify in support of the proposals at forthcoming Copyright Office hearings. Other proponents of the exemptions, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge, didn’t say whether they would file reply comments.