DMCA exemptions set iPhone users free
28 July 2010
Eileen McDermott, New York
Changes to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) anti-circumvention provision will make it easier for cell phone users to run applications not authorised by phone makers
As part of the DMCA, the US Copyright Office and the Librarian of Congress must conduct a rulemaking process every three years, in which they determine certain classes of works to be exempt from the DMCA’s prohibition against circumvention of digital rights management (DRM) and other copyright protection mechanisms.
This is the fourth such proceeding to be conducted since the DMCA’s enactment in 1998.
The latest exemptions relate to six classes of copyrighted works. In addition to handsets, the new rules will also impact DVDs, video games, dongles (a type of hardware that attaches to a computer in order to make secured software function) and eBooks.
The lifting of the prohibition against circumvention of...
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