Under the DMCA, the Copyright Office can add restrictions or remove exemptions under Section 1201 every three years.
The Copyright Office can neither determine if a certain use may be considered fair nor advise on possible copyright violations.
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Congress stepped in and said that content owners need to get paid and set up a royalty system through the copyright office.
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As part of the same announcement, the Copyright Office also gave its blessing to video editors who use excerpts of copyrighted movies in online mashups.
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The Copyright Office created an exemption for cell phone unlocking in 2010, and then took it away again in 2013, making cell phone unlocking illegal once more.
Most proposals currently before Congress merely extend the prior cell phone unlocking exemption for another three years, meaning the Copyright Office will have to determine whether to renew the exemption in another three years.
The exemption is one of a record six granted by the Copyright Office on Wednesday, and was announced so unexpectedly, that even the EFF's Fred von Lohmann admitted that he was "surprised and pleased" by the development.
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The Copyright Office cannot give this permission.
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The Fair Use Doctrine, copied and pasted below from the US Copyright Office stipulates that it is legal and permissible to use copyrighted material under the fair use doctrine for purposes of parody.
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This non-profit performance rights organization has been designated by the U.S. Copyright Office as the sole administrative entity for collecting royalties from streaming music (Sirius XM, Pandora, etc.).
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Instead, Universal argued, state common law applies. (As a side note, at the end of last year, the U.S. Copyright Office performed a study at the request of Congress and recommended that pre-72 sound recordings be placed under federal jurisdiction).
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The U.S. Copyright Office created an exemption last summer in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for users to jailbreak their own devices, despite Apple's objections that the ruling could open phones to dastardly hackers and even lead to "catastrophic" attacks that crash cellphone towers.
Ivi says it is just acting like a cable company, even making royalty payments to the U.S. Copyright Office.
"If a box office success is trumpeted in the media on the opening weekend, it makes the public think that copyright theft isn't actually doing any harm, " Carey told CNN.
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