This One Is very light on details, but Cell phone owners can now break locks to use their handsets with competing carriers, while film professors have the right to copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations, the U.S. Copyright Office said Wednesday.
Other rights declared in the government’s triennial review of the 1998
Digital Millennium Copyright Act seek to improve access for the blind and to obsolete works and let security researchers try to break copy-protection technologies embedded in CDs
All told, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington approved six exemptions, the most his Copyright Office has ever granted. For the first time, the office gave an exemption to a group of users. Previously, Billington took an all-or-nothing approach, making them difficult to justify.
Vague
What a crappy vague article, I guess you get what you pay for.
The one about the Anti-circumventing DMCA and mobile phones intrests me. I’ve always simply asked the carrier for an unlock code both in the States, in Ireland and in the UK and I’ve been given them without hesitation.
However here is the whole shebang from the US Copyright Office.
Of course…
they also got rid of the censorware exemption.