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US Copyright Office adds three classes of temporary exemptions to DMCA anti-circumvention rules

By Melissa Ritti ( October 25, 2024, 18:56 GMT | Insight) -- In its ninth triennial, the US Copyright Office today granted three new classes of temporary exemptions to anticircumvention provision of Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act while expanding several others — including one for the bypass of digital locks on retail-level commercial food preparation equipment, which received broad support from federal antitrust regulators.  The Copyright Office will not weigh in on a proposed exemption for generative artificial intelligence research, however, deeming Section 1201 “ill-suited to address fundamental policy issues with new technologies.”McDonald’s employees are no longer beholden to the whims of their fickle milkshake machines....

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