Editor’s Note: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Final Rule “Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies” is available here.
From: ZDNet
It’s taken years, but finally, cybersecurity professionals have been given license to reverse engineer technology.
The US government have updated and published a new list of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a move perhaps long-overdue which will protect cybersecurity professionals from prosecution when reverse-engineering products for research purposes.
On Friday, the US Copyright Office and the Librarian of Congress published the updated rules on the federal register.
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