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Every three years, the Library of Congress has the thankless task of listening to people complain about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA forbade most attempts to bypass the digital locks on things like DVDs, music, and computer software, but it also gave the Library the ability to wave its magical copyright wand and make certain DRM cracks legal for three years at a time.

This time, the Library went (comparatively) nuts, allowing widespread bypassing of the CSS encryption on DVDs, declaring iPhone jailbreaking to be “fair use,” and letting consumers crack their legally purchased e-books in order to have them read aloud by computers.

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Guest Commentary R. Ben Sperry, Washington Legal Foundation Fellow & law student, George Mason U

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It’s not a stretch to say that many members of the patent bar were
relieved when the U.S. Supreme Court finally issued its decision in
Bilski v. Kappos late last month. Considering that plenty of those lawyers—and
the clients they represent—feared an opinion that would severely
restrict what kind of technology is worthy of patent protection. As it
turns out, those fears were misplaced.

[detailed analysis of the issues follows, ed.}

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By Eric Goldman

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. v. Tabari, 2010 WL 2680891 (9th Cir. July 8, 2010)

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I bring this up because the Ninth Circuit’s latest domain name opinion involves litigation that makes no financial sense for either side. The Tabaris are independent auto brokers that help their customers find and buy Lexus vehicles from an authorized Lexus dealer. They run a business called Fast Imports from the domains buy-a-lexus.com and buyorleaselexus.com.

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