On: I bought a CD, not a licensing agreement

[philwelch]

Fair use provisions are part of the US Code. The DMCA is also part of the US Code.

[rubinass → philwelch]

They are part of the Code, but courts test what the code means all the time. Example: before the Sony Betamax case, there were the statutory provisions of fair use, but it was unclear how it applied to home taping.