Software Freedom Conservancy's DMCA Exemption Requests Granted

Software Freedom Conservancy has had several exemptions granted that it requested to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by the US Library of Congress for activities of interest to free-software developers:

Software Freedom Conservancy is proud to announce that its efforts tostand up for the rights of FOSS developers have been successful and thatit has been granted almost all of the exemptions that it requested inthe Librarian of Congress' recent rule making, according to the finalrule Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright ProtectionSystems for Access Control Technologies, which was published today.Effective today, the Librarian of Congress ("LoC") granted DMCAexemptions for installing alternate firmwares on routers and forinvestigating copyleft compliance, and the exemption that SoftwareFreedom Conservancy previously applied for and received on Smart TVs wasalso expanded. While our formal request to extend the security researchexemption to include privacy research was not granted, the Registerclarified that privacy research is indeed included in security research.Our executive director, Karen Sandler, also participated as anindividual in a request to expand the existing exemption for medicaldevices which was also successful.