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Every three years, the US Copyright Office asks America about the problems with Section 1201 of the DMCA, which bans breaking DRM even for legal reasons, and America gets to answer with requests for exemptions to this rule.

One of EFF’s requests this year is a for an exemption that lets anyone bypass DRM to make fair use of videos;
expanding the current exemption that gives that right to film
professors and a few other narrow categories to include the whole
universe of remixers, mashup artists and fan vidders.

2018 Hugo- and Nebula-nominated science fiction writer Mur Lafferty, author of the smashing Six Wakes, gave us a hand with this by writing The Unicorn Scene, a delicious and smart sf story about what’s at stake here.

Mur’s story joins John Scalzi’s short story about our Right to Repair petition.
We’ve got one more of these in the pipeline that I’ll be publishing
next week. Thank you, Mur and John, for helping us make America safe for
copyright law!

https://boingboing.net/2018/05/22/the-unicorn-scene.html