The U.S. Copyright Office is conducting rulemaking proceedings related to the anti-circumvention provisions of the Copyright Act in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you represent copyright owners, educational institutions, libraries, archives, scholars, researchers and members of the public, the time to submit your proposal is now. (Comments are due on December 1, 2011, by 5:00 pm.)
The DMCA permits the Librarian of Congress to designate certain classes of works as exempt from the anti-circumvention measures where circumvention is directed at certain noninfringing uses. To that end, the Copyright Office is attempting to determine whether the anti-circumvention provisions are likely to affect users' abilities to make noninfringing uses of particular categories of works.
As part of its rulemaking process, the Copyright Office is soliciting written proposals to designate particular classes of works. The submission form can be found here.
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