Petitions for Newly Proposed Exemptions

Petitions for newly proposed exemptions in response to the June 22, 2020, Notice of Inquiry were due on September 8, 2020.


Class Petitioner
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Class 1: Audiovisual Works—Criticism and Comment

  1. Brigham Young University and Brigham Young University—Idaho
  2. Organization for Transformative Works
  3. Peter Decherney, Katherine Sender, John Jackson, Rebecca Stein, International Communication Association Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Console-ing Passions, Library Copyright Alliance, Shiv Gaglani, Stefan Wisbauer, Andrew Berg, Saud Siddiqui, and Ken Robertson (“Joint Educators”)
2

Class 2: Audiovisual Works—Texting

  1. SolaByte Corp.
3

Class 3: Audiovisual Works—Accessibility

  1. Association of Transcribers and Speech-to-Text Providers, Association on Higher Education and Disability, and Library Copyright Alliance ("Accessibility Petitioners")
4

Class 4: Audiovisual Works—Livestream Recording

  1. FloSports Inc.
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Class 5: Audiovisual Works—Preservation

  1. Library Copyright Alliance
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Class 6: Audiovisual Works—Space-Shifting

  1. SolaByte Corp.
7

Class 7:

7(a) Motion Pictures—Text and Data Mining
7(b) Literary Works—Text and Data Mining
  1. Authors Alliance, American Association of University Professors, and Library Copyright Alliance
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Class 8: Literary Works—Accessibility

  1. American Council of the Blind, American Foundation for the Blind, National Federation of the Blind, Library Copyright Alliance, American Association of Law Libraries, Benetech/Bookshare, and HathiTrust ("Accessibility Petitioners")
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Class 9: Literary Works—Medical Device Data

  1. Hugo Campos
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Class 10: Computer Programs—Unlocking

  1. Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. #1
  2. Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. #2
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Class 11: Computer Programs—Jailbreaking

  1. Electronic Frontier Foundation
  2. Software Freedom Conservancy
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Class 12: Computer Programs—Repair

  1. Electronic Frontier Foundation
  2. iFixit and Public Knowledge
  3. iFixit and Repair Association
  4. Summit Imaging, Inc.
  5. Transtate Equipment Co., Inc.
13

Class 13: Computer Programs—Security Research

  1. J. Alex Halderman, Center for Democracy & Technology, and U.S. Technology Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery
  2. Software Freedom Conservancy
14

Class 14:

14(a) Computer Programs—Preservation
  1. Software Preservation Network and Library Copyright Alliance
14(b) Video Games— Preservation
  1. Software Preservation Network and Library Copyright Alliance
15

Class 15: Computer Programs—3D Printing

  1. Michael Weinberg
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Class 16: Computer Programs—Copyright License Investigation

  1. Software Freedom Conservancy

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Class 17: All Works—Accessibility Uses

  1. American Council of the Blind, American Foundation for the Blind, Association of Late-Deafened Adults, Association of Transcribers and Speech-to-Text Providers, Association on Higher Education and Disability, Benetech/Bookshare, Gallaudet University, HathiTrust, Hearing Loss Association of America, Library Copyright Alliance, National Association of the Deaf, National Federation of the Blind, and Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (“Accessibility Petitioners”)