The EFF wins three DMCA exemptions

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced that it has won three exemptions to the DMCA's anti-circumvention rules as part of the regular, three-year process. These include cellphone unlocking, fair use of DVD content, and, happily, liberating locked-down phones. "In its reasoning in favor of EFF's jailbreaking exemption, the Copyright Office rejected Apple's claim that copyright law prevents people from installing unapproved programs on iPhones: 'When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by the maker of the smartphone or the maker of its operating system, the modifications that are made purely for the purpose of such interoperability are fair uses.'"

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