Editing Trusted Computing (section)

===Users unable to exercise legal rights===
The law in many countries allows users certain rights over data whose copyright they do not own (including text, images, and other media), often under headings such as [[fair use]] or [[public interest]]. Depending on jurisdiction, these may cover issues such as [[whistleblowing]], production of evidence in court, quoting or other small-scale usage, [[backup]]s of owned media, and making a copy of owned material for personal use on other owned devices or systems. The steps implicit in trusted computing have the practical effect of preventing users exercising these legal rights.<ref name=Stallman13 />