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Interoperability Exemptions Under The DMCA

The DMCA prohibits the circumvention of digital rights management technologies and other similar content access or copy restrictions on copyrighted works. As such, it has long been understood that the circumvention of computer programs to enable interoperability of non-approved software applications ' a practice commonly referred to as "jailbreaking" ' was forbidden under the DMCA.

22 minute read July 01, 2013 at 04:04 PM
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Michael S. Elkin And Thomas P. Lane
Interoperability Exemptions Under The DMCA

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. '512 prohibits the circumvention of digital rights management technologies and other similar content access or copy restrictions on copyrighted works.

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