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Topics: Main | Archive   New DMCA Exemptions Allow Mobile Phone Jailbreaking, Carrier Unlock The Library of Congress announced a number of exemptions from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), including the "jail breaking" of mobile phones. These exemptions from the copyright law are based on whether the prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works is causing or is likely to cause adverse effects on the ability of users of any particular classes of copyrighted works to make noninfringing uses of those works. Specifically, the Library of Congress named six classes of works for which it is now permitted for persons to circumvent access controls in order to engage in noninfringing uses of works. The six classes of works cited by the Library of Congress are: (1) Motion pictures on DVDs that are lawfully made and acquired and that are protected by the Content Scrambling System when circumvention is accomplished solely in order to accomplish the incorporation of short portions of motion pictures into new works for the purpose of criticism or comment, and where the person engaging in circumvention believes and has reasonable grounds for believing that circumvention is necessary to fulfill the purpose of the use in the following instances: (i) Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and university film and media studies students; (ii) Documentary filmmaking; (iii) Noncommercial videos. (2) Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset. (3) Computer programs, in the form of firmware or software, that enable used wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telecommunications network, when circumvention is initiated by the owner of the copy of the computer program solely in order to connect to a wireless telecommunications network and access to the network is authorized by the operator of the network. (4) Video games accessible on personal computers and protected by technological protection measures that control access to lawfully obtained works, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing for, investigating, or correcting security flaws or vulnerabilities. (5) Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete. A dongle shall be considered obsolete if it is no longer manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace; and (6) Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book's read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format. More details are online. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-169.html 26-Jul-10 Recent Regulatory News California Works with Sprint on First Mobile Alert System 8/25/2010 FCC's Copps & Clyburn Reclassification of Broadband 8/20/2010 U.S. Senators Raise Security Concerns about Huawei 8/20/2010 WildBlue Wins $19M Grant for Rural Satellite Broadband 8/19/2010 Congressional Leaders Warn Against Google/Verizon Pact 8/17/2010 AT&T on Net Neutrality: Wireless is Different 8/13/2010 FCC Drops Closed Door Net Neutrality Talks 8/5/2010 FCC Promotes Microwave in Wireless Backhaul. 8/5/2010 FCC Chairman Appoints Senior Advisor on Broadband 8/2/2010 New DMCA Exemptions Allow Mobile Phone Jailbreaking, Carrier Unlock 7/26/2010 Congressmen Propose Universal Service Reform Act of 2010 7/22/2010 McCain and Lieberman Propose Giving 700MHz D-Block Spectrum to First Responders 7/21/2010 FCC Finds 14-24 Million Americans Lack Access to Broadband 7/20/2010 FCC to Invest $400 /million annually in Rural Healthcare Broadband 7/15/2010 FCC Explores Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) Spectrum 7/15/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton     E-mail Newsletter Subscribe Now