EFF's DMCA Rulemaking Comments and Links

• DMCA Triennial Rulemaking: Failing the Digital Consumer [PDF] December 1, 2005

2006 DMCA Rulemaking

• EFF Reply Comments to the Copyright Office [PDF, 214K] Feb. 2, 2006

2003 DMCA Rulemaking

Post-hearing questions from the Copyright Office, dated July 16, 2003

• EFF comments to Librarian of Congress and U.S. Copyright Office [PDF] December 18, 2002
• Letter to Mary Beth Peters, complaining that the 1201 rule-making notice of inquiry set standards that are far too restrictive. Sent by Public Knowledge, EFF, Consumers Union and the American Federation of the Blind. [PDF] December 20, 2002
• Region Coding (PDF | Text)

Post-hearing comments submitted June 26, 2003

• Comments (PDF and TXT)
• Annexure A (PDF)

Post-hearing comments submitted June 20, 2003

• Comments (PDF and TXT)
• Annexure A (PDF)
• Annexure B (PDF)

EFF Prepared Testimony at Copyright Office section 1201 rule-making hearings presented by EFF Staff Attorney, Gwen Hinze

• Foreign audiovisual works and movies released on non region 1 DVDs and not otherwise available in the United States
• Public domain motion pictures released on CSS-protected DVDs
• Sound recordings on copy-protected audio CDs
• DVDs with unskippable promotional material.

Hearings on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works, Docket No. RM 2002-4C

• May 14, 2003
• May 15, 2003
• May 15, 2003 Supplemental DVD Material
• <"http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/occ/dmca/dmca2003/dmcaletter_08112003.html">Letter from Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)to the Copyright Register August 11, 2003

2003 Determination and Copyright Office Recommendation

• 2003 Final Rule-making Determination by Librarian of Congress, 68 FR 2011
• <"http://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/registers-recommendation.pdf">2003 Final Rule-making Copyright Office Recommendation
• Copyright Office\'s subpage on post-hearing comments

2000 DMCA Rulemaking

• EFF's comments to the Copyright Office on the topic of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and its anti-circumvention provisions. February 17, 2000
• EFF's reply comments to the Copyright Office responding to the arguments advanced by corporate intellectual property holders who support the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and its anti-circumvention provisions
• EFF's post-hearing comments to the Copyright Office for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) rulemaking proceedings. EFF requests the exemption of DVDs from Section 1201(a) of the DMCA

2000 Determination and Copyright Office Recommendation

• 2000 Final Rule-making Determination of Librarian of Congress and Copyright Register Recommendation, 65 FR 64555

General DMCA Rulemaking Resources

• Copyright Office's DMCA Rulemaking website

Articles by Seth Finkelstein

• How to Win (DMCA) Exemptions and Influence Policy 2006
• Winning (DMCA) Exemptions, The Next Round 2003
• How To Win (DMCA) Exemptions And Influence Policy 2002