Petitions to Renew Prior Exemptions

Renewal petitions in response to the June 8, 2023 Notice of Inquiry were due on July 7, 2023.


Motion Pictures (including television programs and videos):

Excerpts for use in documentary filmmaking or other films where use is in parody or for a biographical or historically significant nature

Excerpts for use in noncommercial videos

Excerpts for use in nonfiction multimedia e-books

Excerpts for educational purposes by college and university faculty, students, or employees acting at the direction of faculty, or K-12 educators and students

Excerpts for educational purposes by faculty and employees acting at the direction of faculty in massive open online courses (“MOOCs”)

Excerpts for educational purposes in digital and literacy programs offered by libraries, museums, and other nonprofits

For the provision of captioning and/or audio description by disability services offices or similar units at educational institutions for students, faculty, or staff with disabilities

For the preservation or the creation of a replacement copy of the motion picture by libraries, archives, or museums

For text and data mining by a researcher affiliated with a nonprofit institution of higher education, or by student or staff at the direction of such researcher, for the purpose of scholarly research and teaching

Literary Works:

Literary works distributed electronically for text and data mining by a researcher affiliated with a nonprofit institution of higher education, or by student or staff at the direction of such researcher, for the purpose of scholarly research and teaching

Literary works or previously published musical works that have been fixed in the form of text or notation whose technological protection measures interfere with assistive technologies

Literary works consisting of compilations of data generated by medical devices or their personal corresponding monitoring systems, to access personal data

Computer Programs and Video Games:

Computer programs that operate wireless devices, to allow connection to an alternative wireless network (“unlocking”)

Computer programs that operate smartphones and portable all-purpose mobile computing devices to allow the device to interoperate with or to remove software applications (“jailbreaking”)

Computer programs that operate smart televisions to allow the device to interoperate with software applications on the television for purposes other than gaining unauthorized access to copyrighted works (“jailbreaking”)

Computer programs that operate voice assistant devices to allow the device to interoperate with or to remove software applications for purposes other than gaining unauthorized access to copyrighted works (“jailbreaking”)

Computer programs that operate routers and dedicated network devices to allow the device to interoperate with software applications on the device for purposes other than gaining unauthorized access to copyrighted works (“jailbreaking”)

Computer programs that control motorized land vehicles, marine vessels, or mechanized agricultural vehicles or vessels for purposes of diagnosis, repair, or modification of the vehicle, including to access diagnostic data

Computer programs that control devices designed primarily for use by consumers for diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of the device or system

Computer programs that control medical devices or systems, and related data files, for diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of the device or system

Computer programs for purposes of good-faith security research

Video games for which outside server support has been discontinued, to allow individual play by gamers and preservation of games by libraries, archives, and museums (as well as necessary jailbreaking of console computer code for preservation uses only), and discontinued video games that never required server support, for preservation by libraries, archives, and museums

Computer programs other than video games, for the preservation of computer programs and computer program-dependent materials by libraries, archives, and museums

Computer programs that operate 3D printers, to allow use of alternative material

Computer programs for purpose of investigating potential infringement of free and open source computer programs

Comments in Response to Renewal Petitions:

Comments in response to petitions for renewal were due on August 11, 2023.


Comments in Opposition:


Comments in Support:


Four comments were submitted after the August 11, 2023 deadline: