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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

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Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. Encourage CO to think carefully about smaller nonprofit and educational uses. Careful justifications/written record when we make those exceptions.

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WIPIP session 5: Anti-Circumvention

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Allowed producers to control coffee machines by putting software in them; can prevent use, resale, using unsupported coffee. Question: if there was strict liability for publishing infringing speech from a third party, then would a safe harbor be a harm to speech? Fanworks is a good example where fair use is important.

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