arstechnica.com - 2/14/2009
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Every three years, the Copyright Office hosts a rulemaking in which it considers specific exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) rules against circumventing DRM, and the comments are now in for the current round. This year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation ...
technologyexpert.blogspot.com - 2/14/2009
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We know how protective Apple is with the
iPhone, going to great lengths to make sure users...
can only install "approved" applications, but a way around that is to jailbreak the phone. Given that, Apple has filed comments ( .PDF ) with the U.S. Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA triennial ...
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Apple Calls Jailbreaking iPhones Illegal
technologyexpert.blogspot.com - 2/16/2009
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Two Scottish companies, Picsel (Research) Ltd. and Picsel
Technologies Ltd. nave filed a patent infringement lawsuit against...
Apple in the U.S. District Court of Delaware. The lawsuit claims that the iPhone and iPod Touch use screen rendering technology that infringes on their patents. Picsel ...
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Apple Sued Over iPhone Screen Technology
news.cnet.com - 2/15/2009
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Two related companies are suing Apple over screen
rendering technology used in the iPhone and iPod Touch,...
according to reports. Picsel Technologies and Picsel Research, based in Glasgow, Scotland, filed a patent-infringement lawsuit Friday in U.S. ...
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Apple sued over iPhone screen tech
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Apple officially declares iPhone jailbreaks illegal
TechSpot —
... has been petitioning to make jailbreaking the iPhone an area that is exempt from any copyright law, letting people do it without worry. They are seeking to enable the execution of lawfully obtained software on any phone, regardless of what the manufacturer feels is OK to run. Apple does not agree. In fact, they have come out to say that any circumvention of the software protection mechanisms on the iPhone, even doing it to your own for the purpose of running your own software, is an illegal copyright violation . Apple says that allowing the iPhone to be jailbroken will ...
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