Scholars Win Exemptions to Digital-Copyright Act.

The article looks at how the U.S. Copyright Office has issued a handful of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that may benefit media professors, archivists, and other academics. Under one of the exemptions, all of which will expire after three years, professors of film and media studies can circumvent the access-control technology of DVD's in their libraries to use clips of films more easily in class. Peter Decherney, an assistant professor of cinema studies at the University of Pennsylvania, was a central figure pushing for the exemptions.