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[News] The Right to Hack - US Law Approves

U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights

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| 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.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061123/ap_on_hi_te/digital_copyright

More openness and less restrictions for a change. A recently-passed law in
the UK had the opposite effect.

Also today:

Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological
Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works

http://www.copyright.gov/1201/

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