Last November, the Librarian of Congress adopted half a dozen exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, among them one that might give cell phone phone users greater freedom to move between carriers with their mobile devices. That exemption allows users to legally unlock their cell phones, according to two attorneys with Banner & Witcoff in Chicago. The attorneys, Timothy C. Meece and Aseet Patel, explain that in the past the mobile phone industry has applied the DMCA to create software locks that control user access to the firmware in a mobile phone.
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DMCA Exemption Could Unlock Cell Phones
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. February 6, 2007 08:24 AMLast November, the Librarian of Congress adopted half a dozen exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, among them one that might give cell phone phone users greater freedom to move between carriers with their mobile devices. That exemption allows users to legally unlock their cell phones, according to two attorneys with Banner & Witcoff in Chicago. The attorneys, Timothy C. Meece and Aseet Patel, explain that in the past the mobile phone industry has applied the DMCA to create software locks that control user access to the firmware in a mobile phone.