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SubjectRe: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders
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On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:30:30 +0100, Helge Hafting said:

> This can't legally happen. Do the DMCA prevent "circumventing"
> even when you have the legal right to make copies of the content?

As a matter of fact, yes. See 17 USC 1201 and Skylarov v. Adobe - the fact
that a user may have totally legitimate fair-use access to the protected
content is *not* an exemption to the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause.

> (If so, then the music industry breaks DMCA when manufacturing
> their protected CDs from a protected master . . .)

Oohh.. an interesting point.. ;)
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