Re: Apple Says Jailbreaking iPhones Is Illegal, Dammit

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Jonathan Ezor" <jezor () tourolaw edu>
Date: February 13, 2009 2:08:19 PM EST
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: RE: [IP] Apple Says Jailbreaking iPhones Is Illegal, Dammit

One small but important point: the anti-circumvention rules of the DMCA
(making illegal the circumvention of copy protection, or trafficking  
in ways
to do that) are *not* copyright rules, nor is the act of circumvention
necessarily an infringement of a copyright.  It may *also* be an  
infringement
or lead to one, depending on what is used to defeat the copy  
protection and
what's done with the unprotected work, but that is a separate claim.
{Jonathan}

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