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| id | filing_uuid | filing_type | registrant_name | registrant_id | client_name | filing_year | filing_period | issue_code | specific_issues | government_entities | income_amount | expense_amount | is_no_activity | is_termination | received_date |
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| 2630552 | 1ccdf332-6c28-41bd-abde-c9ff4e227c9d | 2T | HUGHES LAWYERS, LLC | 401104707 | EQUIPMENT DEALERS ASSOCIATION | 2021 | second_quarter | AGR | Proposed Class (b)(9) can be renewed in its current form, and potentially clarified with certain definitions. The Copyright Office, however, should not permit the expansion of Proposed Class (b)(9) in the guise of so-called renewal as part of a broader Proposed Class 12. First, expanding the exemption to include third-party service providers likely exceeds the permissible scope of these Section 1201(a)(1)(B)-(C) proceedings by violating the separate prohibitions on trafficking in circumvention tools and services as provided in Section 1201(a)(2) and 1201(b)(1), which are not subject to this triennial exemption procedure. Second, as noted in the Notice, the Copyright Office reviewed and declined to adopt the remaining proposed expansions in the 2018 Section 1201 Exemption Rulemaking. 85 Fed. Reg. 65,307 nn.201, 204. There is no reason to reach a different outcome here. Any proposed renewal should be subject to the same limitations as embodied in the current regulations, and additional definitional clarifications are warranted. Proposed Class 16 exceeds the permissible scope of an exemption in these proceedings. Section 1201(a)(1)(B) limits the scope of any anti-circumvention exemption to users of a copyrighted work which is in a particular class of works, if such [users] are, or are likely to be in the succeeding 3-year period, adversely affected by virtue of such prohibition in their ability to make noninfringing uses of that particular class of works[.] (Emphasis added.) As the Copyright Office noted, this rulemaking process requires a showing of distinct, verifiable and measurable adverse impacts on noninfringing uses, which cannot be hypothetical, theoretical, or speculative and must be real, tangible, and concrete. Id. (citing Commerce Committee Report at 37; Section 1201 Study at 119-21). For these reasons, broad proposed categories such as fair use works or educational fair use works [are] inappropriate. Id. (citing 2015 Recommendation at 100 (citing 2006 Recommendation at 17-19). Here, the Copyright Office correctly noted that Proposed Class 16 is not limited to particular users or types of devices or particular uses. Id. Indeed, as written, Proposed Class 16 sweepingly applies to an unlimited set of users for all computer programs-irrespective of any particular type of machine or device-for any lawful uses. | 10000 | 0 | 1 | 2021-05-11T11:13:26.067000-04:00 |