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>DMCA does not include fair use as an allowable reason to circumvent DRM. // Could you cite the law you're referring to here please? The UK CDPA as amended to
by pbhjpbhj 6y ago
>DMCA does not include fair use as an allowable reason to circumvent DRM. //
Could you cite the law you're referring to here please?
The UK CDPA as amended to follow the EU's Marrakech directive seems to say anything that prevents you from exercising your Fair Dealing rights to make content accessible for disabled people is void if it contradicts these rights. This seems necessarily to allow for circumvention of DRM (for people with disabilities and specific registered companies) but that also appears to mean production of circumvention means needs to be legal otherwise such accessibility will be impossible.
- freeone3000 6y agoDMCA is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the latest amendment to USA copyright law. Text of the law is here: https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf . GitHub is a division of a US company, Microsoft, so it is bound by US law.