Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix and remembers why
Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 1 year agoIn the US, you can make an archival copy of software for yourself.
However, you can't sell it, give it away or use someone else's archival copy for something you do have already.
LWD@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 1 year ago
Audiovisual works fall under Section III, 1 of the exemptions, including video.
Computer Programs fall under Section III, 5 - 12.
Explicitly software isn't even mentioned until Section III, 6 though E-Books falls under Section III, 1D which is obviously software.
Under PROPOSED CLASS 1: AUDIOVISUAL WORKS---CRITICISM AND COMMENT DVD CCA, screen captures and viewing the media in a classroom as part of the concerns of those that were against the exemption in Section III, 1 specifically.
These exemptions definitely do not just encompass software only.
The DMCA and copyright law does not allow any of this without the exemptions. These are exemptions to those laws and what is contained in them is legally allowed.