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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

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Organization for Transformative Works, Rebecca Tushnet: The Organization for Transformative Works (“OTW”) is a nonprofit established to protect and defend fans and fanworks from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. Like most large websites that are not in the news every day, we receive very few copyright claims despite our size.

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WIPIP session 5: Anti-Circumvention

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A: Chamberlain highlights that these are abuses, but you have conflicting precedent w/Blizzard and the Copyright Office saying no, 1201 is absolutely supposed to cover these situations. Highlights that Chamberlain and other cases are about personal property versus 1201’s use of copyright. Pam Samuelson: don’t forget 1202.

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27th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Symposium: From the DMCA to the DSA: Panel 3: Intended and Unintended Consequences of the DSA

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The nonprofit I work with, the Organization for Transformative Works (“OTW”) was established in 2007 to protect and defend fans and fanworks from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. Although DuckDuckGo does try to make money, it doesn’t do so in the kinds of ways that make platforms seem different from ordinary publishers.

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