Ausnahmeregelung vom DMCA für Internet Archive

Das Internet-Archiv archive.org hat einen „juristischen Sieg“ gegen den DMCA errungen und darf jetzt Computerspiele und andere Software archivieren, endlich ohne Befürchtung, verklagt zu werden. In einem Forumsbeitrag werden die Details bekanntgegeben:

This is a happy moment, but on the other hand this exception is so limited it leaves the overall draconian nature of the DMCA in effect. […] More formally, Internet Archive has successfully advocated for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). The DMCA prohibits circumvention of technological measures employed by or on behalf of copyright owners to protect their works (“access controls”). Specifically, 17 U.S.C. §1201(a)(1)(A) provides, in part, that “No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.”