Episode 5: Understanding the Anti-circumvention Rules and the Preservation Exemptions
Channel: Software Preservation Network
Date: 2019-04-21

In this fifth episode in a seven-part series about using the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use, you’ll learn about: what the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions are and how they relate to copyright, fair use, and the Code; how the triennial exemption rulemaking works and how SPN obtained an exemption for software (and video game) preservation; and how to apply the new exemption to your own activities.

Episode 5 speakers include: Lyndsey Moulds (Rhizome), Kendra Albert (Cyberlaw Clinic @ Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society) and Jonathan Band (Library Copryright Alliance). Facilitators are Krista Cox (Association of Research Libraries) and Peter Jaszi (Washington School of Law, American University). The host is Jessica Meyerson (Educopia Institute, Software Preservation Network).

The Fair Use Code & Other Legal Tools for Software Preservation webinar series will examine the Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Software Preservation and surrounding legal issues in greater depth. The webinar is jointly hosted by the Association of Research Libraries and the Software Preservation Network.