The legal spotlight has definitely been on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) lately. A few short weeks ago, we told you how the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York handed down a victory for YouTube (owned by Google). In that case, the court interpreted the DMCA to decide that YouTube cannot be held liable for acts of copyright infringement committed by its users.

And, just last week (Monday, July 26), the U.S. Copyright Office created several new DMCA exemptions during a regularly scheduled review of this hunk o’ statute. read more