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Software Freedom Conservancy has had several exemptions granted that it requested to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by the US Library of Congress for activities of interest to free-software developers:

Software Freedom Conservancy is proud to announce that its efforts to
stand up for the rights of FOSS developers have been successful and that
it has been granted almost all of the exemptions that it requested in
the Librarian of Congress’ recent rule making, according to the final
rule Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection
Systems for Access Control Technologies, which was published today.
Effective today, the Librarian of Congress (“LoC”) granted DMCA
exemptions for installing alternate firmwares on routers and for
investigating copyleft compliance, and the exemption that Software
Freedom Conservancy previously applied for and received on Smart TVs was
also expanded. While our formal request to extend the security research
exemption to include privacy research was not granted, the Register
clarified that privacy research is indeed included in security research.
Our executive director, Karen Sandler, also participated as an
individual in a request to expand the existing exemption for medical
devices which was also successful.