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Originally Posted by Shaggy
That is talking about the Chafee Amendment, which is an entirely different part of copyright law. It is unrelated to the DMCA exceptions. Maybe that is why people are getting confused?
Your quote is talking about exceptions to copyright itself. What we're talking about are exceptions to the DMCA and removing DRM, not the entire copyright. They are two completely different things.
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I am talking about what "authorized entities" means, and as you suggest, what it means comes from the Chafee Amendment. Recall that the anti-circumvention exemption in question says:
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Literary works distributed in e-book format when all existing e-book 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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