Thread: CNN: Why can't you 'give' an e-book?
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Old 07-30-2010, 09:26 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by nekokami View Post
In case anyone's curious, here's a link to the actual text of the relevant portion of the DMCA:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17...1----000-.html

Section (f) is particularly interesting, in terms of "interoperability."
But that applies to reverse engineering of software to make the software interoperable. It doesn't talk about breaking DRM on ebooks. Maybe it could be applied to interoperability of e.g. ADE and Calibre for the purpose of conversion of DRM'ed ebooks, but I think that would be a tricky legal debate.
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