Perspective
Aug. 6, 2010
Cell Phone Users Catch a Break
Consumers can now “jailbreak” their cell phones. How will this decision, centered around the iPhone, impact Apple and other service providers? By M. Scott Koller of McKennon|Schindler.
The U.S. Copyright Office has announced an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that will allow users to legally "jailbreak" their cell phones. This decision helps to settle a hotly disputed area of copyright law and provides consumers the freedom to decide what to do with the cell phones they have purchased.
At the center of this controversy is the popular Apple iPhone. Since 2007, there have been ...
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