“Apple recently told the U.S. Copyright Office that it believes iPhone jailbreaking is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and infringes on its copyright, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation,” Tom Krazit reports for CNET.
“The EFF is trying to get the Copyright Office to grant a DMCA exemption on behalf of iPhone owners who have chosen to jailbreak their iPhones, or bypass the restriction Apple places on standard iPhones that only allows the installation of applications from approved sources: the App Store,” Krazit reports.
“In its response to the Copyright Offic, Apple disagreed that such an exemption was proper because the very act of jailbreaking the iPhone results in copyright infringement,” Krazit reports.
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