Section 1201 DMCA Hearing: Unlocking Phones (6A, 6B, 6C) Part I
Channel: Public Knowledge
Date: 2012-06-11

Every three years, the US Copyright Office considers requests for exemptions to the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA.  As written, this provision prevents the breaking of digital locks that protect copyrighted works.  Members of the public must ask for permission to break these digital locks for legitimate purposes.

Although the Copyright Office was unable to record the proceedings, which occurred over three days between May 31 and June 5 2012, Public Knowledge captured most of them and will archive them here.  The Copyright Office maintains the exemption requests, comments on the requests, and replies to those comments at this site: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/