Article X54Y Ecuador's draft copyright law: legal to break DRM to achieve fair use

Ecuador's draft copyright law: legal to break DRM to achieve fair use

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Cory Doctorow
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All over the world, laws promulgated by the US Trade Representative ban breaking digital locks -- the "Digital Rights Management" technologies that lock up our TVs, tablets, phones, games consoles, cars, insulin pumps, tractors, coffee makers, etc -- even if you're breaking them to do something legal, for example, making "fair use" (like parodies, critiques, and new, transformative works like mashups). (more")

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