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both the notice and takedown regime (DMCA section 512) and the anticircumvention provisions that make DVD-ripping illegal (DMCA section 1201) are part of the same law--the DMCA--though these two sections represent discrete components of the complex law. On Monday, we discussed section 512 in depth, so today, let's take a close look at how section 1201 applies to innovators like Lee, as well as current attempts to reform the law.

Updated 2010 ruling from Library of Congress indicating that university faculty can circumvent DVD CSS within fair use, but only film and media study students.