Previous Exemptions Under Chapter 12

Here’s a supplement to my newest writeup, Bypassing DRM and Other Hilarity. It’s a number of charts that feature all of the previous exemptions under §1201(a)(1)(A) of the Copyright Act.

Exemption text comes from the corresponding Federal Register where the exemptions were published. You can find them here:

• 2000
• 2003
• 2006
• 2010
• 2012

Next to the actual exemption text, there’s a perfectly “historically accurate” example of the exemption class.

Disclaimer: The examples listed below only constitute a portion (and sometimes a narrow portion) of the full exemption.