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28 July 2010

DMCA exemptions set iPhone users free

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.




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