Wired News: Fighting to Preserve Old Programs
[Brewster] Kahle and his nonprofit Internet Archive have petitioned the U.S. Copyright Office about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, which governs the circumvention of anti-piracy measures. Kahle’s organization is seeking exemptions from DMCA provisions that prohibit the archiving of software titles. If the Copyright Office says no, Kahle fears millions of programs eventually will be lost forever.
The Internet Archive filed a DMCA <a href=“http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2003/comments/025.pdf>exemption requestwith the Copyright Office requesting exemptions in order to archive digital copies of software.
