Professor Candice Hoke, along with six prominent scholars and experts in cyber security and copyright law, filed a comment with the United States Copyright Office on February 6,  regarding a proposed exemption under 17 U.S.C. Section 1201 or Software Security Research (Class 25). According to the Comment, “[a]n exemption for software security research is essential to promote the active research and testing efforts necessary to keep pace with evolving cybersecurity risks.”  The text of the Comment is available here: 1201_comments_–_security_research