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I tried to list off the exemptions I remembered, but it's been a decade. That seems sensible to me. I still have most of my old training materials if folks are interested.

wingineer | karma 175 | avg karma 6.03 · | 2021-08-23 09:01:01

Does this have any effect on the exemption from liability for this drug or is that still in effect until 2024? I haven't seen any language on this.

jedberg | karma 72921 | avg karma 5.98 · | 2020-06-01 17:06:42+00:00

The law just passed last year, mostly in response to exactly what happened to you.

Also there are a lot of exemptions, one big one being that the building needs to be 15 years old to be subject to the law.

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kevingadd | karma 14699 | avg karma 2.67 · | 2020-07-08 17:21:26+00:00

There was previously an exemption put in place, they're suspending it.

carussell | karma 2674 | avg karma 2.57 · | 2015-02-10 19:00:14+00:00

> "The exemption already exists"... where?

17 U.S.C. § 1201, which is both named in the article and otherwise trivially googleable.

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ktizo | karma 3987 | avg karma 2.82 · | 2012-10-03 10:18:44+00:00

They got it in 1999, so were not subject to the new rules.

Cornelius267 | karma 57 | avg karma 2.28 · | 2022-01-24 18:00:49

The post that you are replying to says that these exemptions were tightened years before Covid-19 existed.

saurik | karma 31936 | avg karma 4.3 · | 2018-10-25 20:44:15+00:00

They actually (mostly) fixed this recently (in no small part due to being beaten down pretty hard by iFixIt a few years ago filing a crazy number of new exemption requests ;P). Now existing exemptions have a streamlined renewal process where the opposition needs to demonstrate that there was an important shift in the underlying evidence during that time.

https://clinic.cyber.harvard.edu/2017/10/25/update-on-the-20...

https://www.copyright.gov/1201/1201_streamlined_renewal_tran...

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consp | karma 2881 | avg karma 2.56 · | 2018-09-13 13:42:42+00:00

In the summary of the original draft I read it was exempt. Haven't read the amended version but I suspect it still is in there somewhere.

mhoad | karma 4678 | avg karma 4.64 · | 2022-11-27 23:56:31

That doesn't appear to have gone past a proposed amendment 10 years ago unless I am missing something those protections are still very much in place.

JumpCrisscross | karma 145242 | avg karma 4.56 · | 2022-01-10 13:27:56

Apparently the exemption expires this September [1].

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/163001/congress-let-ivy-leag...

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DrScump | karma 6029 | avg karma 1.06 · | 2016-01-05 10:16:40+00:00

If you read the document in your link, you will see that that regulation expired last July.

sdwolfz | karma 833 | avg karma 3.8 · | 2021-12-05 11:16:45

It does not apply retroactively.

connicpu | karma 695 | avg karma 2.84 · | 2019-12-19 20:55:29+00:00

They were exempt in the old law so I doubt that's changed