U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights
By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer
Published: Wednesday, November 22, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) - Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced Wednesday.
Other copyright exemptions approved by the Library of Congress will let film professors copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations and let blind people use special software to read copy-protected electronic books.
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 exempted groups of users.
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/business/technology/story/3427780p-12581064c.html
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...von Lohmann said he was disappointed the Copyright Office rejected a number of exemptions that could have benefited consumers, including one that would have let owners of DVDs legally copy movies for use on Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and other portable players.
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The new rules will take effect Monday and expire in three years.[!?]
By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer
Published: Wednesday, November 22, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) - Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced Wednesday.
Other copyright exemptions approved by the Library of Congress will let film professors copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations and let blind people use special software to read copy-protected electronic books.
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 exempted groups of users.
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/business/technology/story/3427780p-12581064c.html
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...von Lohmann said he was disappointed the Copyright Office rejected a number of exemptions that could have benefited consumers, including one that would have let owners of DVDs legally copy movies for use on Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and other portable players.
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The new rules will take effect Monday and expire in three years.[!?]