Copyright Exemptions issued for Cell Phones, DVDs, e-Books

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Copyright Exemptions issued for Cell Phones, DVDs, e-Books

11-23-2006, 11:08 AM,

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Copyright Exemptions issued for Cell Phones, DVDs, e-Books

Quote: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...

..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...

full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061123/ap_o..._copyright

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