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Originally Posted by McNutt
While the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits the distribution of any method to circumvent DRM, removing DRM for your own private use has been looked at by the courts as fair use, so long as you own the original material.
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I don't think that this has ever been tested in US courts. Can you give a case reference?
I thought that the current situation was that legal opinion was divided over the legality of DRM removal in the US, the only definite exceptions being those granted by the Library of Congress acting under the DMCA.
There is an exception granted for ebooks:
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(6) Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book’s read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format.
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But note that this only applies if read-aloud has been prevented in
all ebook editions of the book.