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Post-Hearing Comments
Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies

Post-hearing comments in this rulemaking were due June 23, 2000. The Office has received 28 comments, which are posted below. Paper copies of the comments are also now available in the Copyright Office for inspection and limited borrowing.

Document Organization Date
1 Ray Van De Walker November 29, 1999
2 Sean Embry January 21, 2000
3 Benjamin "Gonzo" Granzeau January 21, 2000
4 Aladdin Enterprises (L. Peter Deutsch) January 21, 2000
5 Eric Newman January 21, 2000
6 Liam Coughlin January 21, 2000
7 Tim Lee January 21, 2000
8 Greg Lindahl January 21, 2000
9 Nicklous Roberts January 21, 2000
10 Donald Edward Goodman, Jr. January 21, 2000
11 Adam Lassek January 21, 2000
12 Anthony Carrico and
Renee Johnson		 January 22, 2000
13 Greg Wooledge January 22, 2000
14 Peter Doege January 23, 2000
15 Ian Turner January 23, 2000
16 Chris Heidelberger January 23, 2000
17 Daniel Hull January 30, 2000
18 Yaron M. Minsky February 3, 2000
19 Martin McWhorter February 4, 2000
20 Daniel Lakeland February 5, 2000
21 William Ball February 6, 2000
22 Ken Adams Arromdee February 6, 2000
23 Glenn and Mary Everhart February 7, 2000
24 Jordan B. Pollack February 8, 2000
25 Greg Poucher February 8, 2000
26 Peter Seebach February 8, 2000
27 John Drabik February 9, 2000
28 Ted Yurkon February 9, 2000
29 Bob Hiett (revised at number 133) February 9, 2000
30 David Wagner February 10, 2000
31 Matthias Brustle February 10, 2000
32 National Association Independent Schools (Chris Collins) February 10, 2000
33 Newton Thomas February 10, 2000
34 Mike Vande Velde February 10, 2000
35 Chris Bergeron February 10, 2000
36 Dan Kaminsky February 10, 2000
37 Ross A. Lippert February 10, 2000
38 Daniel J. Peng February 11, 2000
39 Padgett Peterson February 11, 2000
40 Anthony Garcia February 11, 2000
41 Richard Coleman February 11, 2000
42 Susan Aker February 11, 2000
43 Time Warner Inc.,
(Bernard R. Sorkin) 		February 11, 2000
44 Brian Tabone February 11, 2000
45 Craig O. Fogus February 13, 2000
46 Christian O. Hunt February 13, 2000
47 Matt Haller February 13, 2000
48 J Maynard Gelinas February 13, 2000
49 Michael Campbell February 13, 2000
50 Ben Oppliger February 13, 2000
51 Zach Karpinski February 13, 2000
52 Johnathan Dinan February 13, 2000
53 John Davison February 13, 2000
54 Ethan Heilman February 13, 2000
55 Matt Joyce February 13, 2000
56 Greg Knight February 13, 2000
57 Anthony L. Awtrey February 13, 2000
58 Joe Dufu February 13, 2000
59 Julian Cassin February 13, 2000
60 Jacab H. Bechtel February 13, 2000
61 Brian Hellman February 13, 2000
62 Carl Bright February 13, 2000
63 Stanley Leszynski February 13, 2000
64 Chris Vasques February 13, 2000
65 Geoffrey A. Jones February 13, 2000
66 Damien Germano February 14, 2000
67 Ray Grens Jr. February 14, 2000
68 Wendall Cada February 14, 2000
69 Sean Standish February 14, 2000
70 Joe Bonjorno February 14, 2000
71 Brad Willman February 14, 2000
72 Brent Fulgham February 07, 2000
73 Alen L. Peacock February 09, 2000
74 Patrick J. Lawrence February 09, 2000
75 Brian Knotts February 09, 2000
76 Steve Schveighoffer February 09, 2000
77 Casey McCoy February 09, 2000
78 Stephen P. Villano February 09, 2000
79 Stephan Szabo February 14, 2000
80 David Ellwood February 14, 2000
81 Michael T. Halligan February 14, 2000
82 Michael T. Halligan
(supplemental comment)		 February 14, 2000
83 Phillip Benoit February 14, 2000
84 Bill Trost February 14, 2000
85 Andrew F. Vincent February 14, 2000
86 Justin Pharr February 14, 2000
87 Bryan King February 14, 2000
88 Tom Gwozdz February 14, 2000
89 Joseph Bennett February 14, 2000
90 George Haeh February 14, 2000
91 William E. Strebin February 14, 2000
92 Braden McGrath February 14, 2000
93 Jim Bauer February 14, 2000
94 Jeff Pajk February 14, 2000
95 Robert Taylor February 14, 2000
96 Joseph Lepe February 14, 2000
97 John Hiltz February 15, 2000
98 Derek M. McCall February 15, 2000
99 John W. O'Brien III February 15, 2000
100 Brian R. Mueller February 15, 2000
101 Aaron R. Lahman February 15, 2000
102 Troy Wilkinson February 15, 2000
103 Adam Evans February 15, 2000
104 Christian Wright February 15, 2000
105 Arnold G. Reinhold February 15, 2000
106 Dave Barboza February 15, 2000
107 Mark DeCapua February 15, 2000
108 Faraz Shah February 15, 2000
109 Robert Frantz February 15, 2000
110 Jonathan McNeill February 15, 2000
111 Nicolas Graf February 15, 2000
112 Jeremy Wolf February 15, 2000
113 Justin Ward February 15, 2000
114 Dale Pontius February 16, 2000
116 James Thoms February 16, 2000
115 Paul Powers February 14, 2000
117 Kyle Schurle February 16, 2000
118 Paul Taylor February 16, 2000
119 Michael Kline February 16, 2000
120 Jacob Vargas February 16, 2000
121 Gary Petersen February 16, 2000
122 Brian Aljian February 16, 2000
123 Mark Scanlon February 16, 2000
124 Gibert Young February 16, 2000
125 Richard Clark February 16, 2000
126 Paul A. Ruelas February 16, 2000
127 Melissa Toupal February 16, 2000
128 Al Urbanski February 16, 2000
129 Stephen Markacs February 16, 2000
130 Markus F. Hay February 16, 2000
131 Scott Moskowitz February 16, 2000
132 Jeremy Tocher February 16, 2000
133 Bob Hiett February 16, 2000
134 William Patrick Gray February 16, 2000
135 Patrick Chapman February 16, 2000
136

Michael Sims

February 17, 2000
137 Alex Wood February 17, 2000
138 Ray Gardener February 17, 2000
139 Tracy Camp February 17, 2000
140 Michael S. Oski February 17, 2000
141 Eric Eldred February 17, 2000
142 Eric Gibson February 17, 2000
143 Shaun Lawson February 17, 2000
144 Curtis Allen Dougherty February 17, 2000
145 Jonathan Borden February 17, 2000
146 Matt Leo February 17, 2000
147 Tor Slettnes February 17, 2000
148 Gary Watson February 17, 2000
149 Stuart Gibson February 17, 2000
150 Erik L. Davis February 17, 2000
151 Raymond A. Ingles February 17, 2000
152 Robert Rhode February 17, 2000
153 James D. Kilmer February 17, 2000
154 Ben Efros February 17, 2000
155 Kelly Joyner February 17, 2000
156 Peter C. McCluskey February 17, 2000
157 Mark Hinds February 17, 2000
158 Dr. Ruben I Safir February 17, 2000
159 Eric Wolf February 17, 2000
160 Eric Fitzgerald February 17, 2000
161 Association of American Universities, American Council on Education and National Association of State Universities (John C. Vaughn) February 17, 2000
162 American Library Association (Emily Sheketoff)
American Association of Law Libraries (Robert Oakley
Association of Research Libraries (Duane Webster)
Medical Library Association (Carla Funk)
Special Libraries Association (David Bender)		 February 17, 2000
163 Luke Moses February 17, 2000
164 Daniel E. Rudman February 17, 2000
165 Sterling Keener February 17, 2000
166 Eric Stonfers February 17, 2000
167 Daniel J. Tisher February 17, 2000
168 Shawn Wilton February 17, 2000
169 Stuart Brady February 17, 2000
170 Olivier Calle February 17, 2000
171 Association for Computing Machinery (Dr. Barbara Simons) February 17, 2000
172 Robert Horn February 17, 2000
173 Ned Kratzer February 17, 2000
174 Jonathan Chapin February 17, 2000
175 National Digital Library Program,
(Carl Fleishhauer) and Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division,
(David A. Francis, Chief), Library of Congress 		February 17, 2000
176 Joseph Blake February 17, 2000
177 Andrew Valkanas February 17, 2000
178 Clayton S. Chan February 17, 2000
179 Jonathan Field February 17, 2000
180 Adrian A. Lamo February 17, 2000
181 Michael A. Rolenz February 17, 2000
182 Peter Seebach February 17, 2000
183 Joshua M. Yelon February 17, 2000
184 American Association of Museums (Barry G. Szczesny) February 17, 2000
185 MIT Media Laboratory (Eric Scheirer and Leonard Foner) February 17, 2000
186 Jeff Waller February 17, 2000
187 Jon Richardson February 17, 2000
188 Jesse Mohr February 17, 2000
189 Nicholas J. Nassar February 17, 2000
190 Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.  Riley R. Russel February 17, 2000
191 William Silverstein February 17, 2000
192 Guy De Marco February 17, 2000
193 Dr. David S. Touretzky February 17, 2000
194 Rian Goldfarb February 17, 2000
195 Matthew Duing February 17, 2000
196 Jay Venezia February 17, 2000
197 Ryan Dibble February 17, 2000
198 Charles N. Benson February 17, 2000
199 Spectrum Software
(Joseph V. Montoro) 		February 17, 2000
200 James Phractal February 17, 2000
201 The Meme Factory, Inc. (Karl O. Pinc) February 17, 2000
202 Benjamin Edelman February 17, 2000
203 Peter D. Junger February 17, 2000
204 Electronic Frontier Foundation (Robin Gross) February 17, 2000
205 Frank T. Lofaro Jr. February 17, 2000
206 David Michael Guzak February 17, 2000
207 Michael McClary February 17, 2000
208 Raymond A. Ingles February 17, 2000
209 Motion Picture Association of America (Tod Cohen) February 17, 2000
210 Sean McPherson February 17, 2000
211 Jason A. Dour February 17, 2000
212 Matthew McKeon February 17, 2000
213 James McPherson February 17, 2000
214 Aaron Steele February 17, 2000
215 Michael A. Tilp February 17, 2000
216 Jeff Cobb February 17, 2000
217 Michael Brudoley February 17, 2000
218 Ralph Dosser February 17, 2000
219 Shane Killian February 17, 2000
220 Patrick J. Lawrence February 17, 2000
221 Kevin B. Theobald February 17, 2000
222 Lazlow Jones February 17, 2000
223 Arthur Anderson Performance & Learning Div. (Todd Laufenberg) February 17, 2000
224 Computer & Communications Industry Association
(Jason Mahler) 		February 17, 2000
225 Jay Riddle February 17, 2000
226 Christopher S. Bayus February 17, 2000
227 Benjamin J. Stassart February 17, 2000
228 Dan Aiello February 17, 2000
229 Craig Markwardt February 17, 2000
230 Mike Gorse February 17, 2000
231 Matthew J. Jankowski February 17, 2000
232 Justin Patrin February 17, 2000
233 Scott Dier February 17, 2000
234 David Apfelbaum February 17, 2000
235 Andrew W. Appel and Edward W. Felten February 17, 2000


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