the FSF decided anyway to refer to the WIPO treaty rather than DMCA, since

several national anticircumvention laws were (or will likely be) structured

more similarly to the anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA in their

implementation of WIPO\@.  Furthermore, the addition of ``or similar laws''

provides an appropriate catch-all.

power to forbid circumvention of technological measures only to the extent

that such circumvention is accomplished through the exercise of GPL rights in

the conveyed work.  GPLv3\S3\P2 makes clear that the referenced ``legal

rights'' are specifically rights arising under anticircumvention law.  and

refers to both the conveying party's rights and to third party rights, as in

some cases the conveying party will also be the party legally empowered to