Sun Baked
May 5, 2009, 06:38 PM
Fight Over Jailbreaking iPhone Draws a Crowd (http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202430435954)
By Zusha Elinson
The Recorder
May 5, 2009
Hearings held by the low-profile U.S. Copyright Office probably won't ever be carried live on CNN.
But Friday's airing of grievances about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in a basement room at Stanford Law School drew more than the small requisite crowd of copyright nerds because of a big fight over jailbreaking Apple's iPhone.
Apple sent Fenwick & West's David Hayes to prevent the Copyright Office from making an exemption to the DMCA for jailbreaking -- that is, cracking the iPhone software so users can download software applications that aren't approved or sold by Apple. The company argues that jailbreaking is a violation of the DMCA provision that prohibits circumventing technological protections of copyrighted works.
San Francisco's Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/apples-censorship) is the thorn in Apple's side that requested the change in the law...
Seems the EFF is really doing a full frontal assault right now. :p
By Zusha Elinson
The Recorder
May 5, 2009
Hearings held by the low-profile U.S. Copyright Office probably won't ever be carried live on CNN.
But Friday's airing of grievances about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in a basement room at Stanford Law School drew more than the small requisite crowd of copyright nerds because of a big fight over jailbreaking Apple's iPhone.
Apple sent Fenwick & West's David Hayes to prevent the Copyright Office from making an exemption to the DMCA for jailbreaking -- that is, cracking the iPhone software so users can download software applications that aren't approved or sold by Apple. The company argues that jailbreaking is a violation of the DMCA provision that prohibits circumventing technological protections of copyrighted works.
San Francisco's Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/apples-censorship) is the thorn in Apple's side that requested the change in the law...
Seems the EFF is really doing a full frontal assault right now. :p
