"Andrea Matwyshyn, law professor at Northeastern and Princeton Universities, says it’s not a done deal that the Copyright Office will oppose the proposed exemptions and that the office has been coming around recently to recognizing the need to examine code for safety purposes.
“Historically the Copyright Office has been conservative about granting requests that involve any form of [exemptions] for reverse engineering or for research,” she notes. “However, because our whole economy now relies on the integrity of code, the Copyright Office in our hearing with them expressed a recognition of changed circumstances and did not adopt an inherently hostile position to [this kind of exemption].”"
- Date Published:09/18/2015
- Original Publication:Wired