Every three years , the US Copyright Office has a rulemaking session for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act , where immunity requests can be filed . For the 2009 session , the Electronic Frontier Foundation filedan exemption requestfor jailbreaking iPhones for the use of interoperability with sovereign software package — i.e. , apps not in the App Store .
The EFF ’s counter - argument is that “ courts have long recognized that re-create software while inverse engineering science is a fair use when done for purpose of further interoperability with severally created software system . ” Apple says , whatever , it ’s not comely consumption , you take in .
We ’ll allow the attorney figure it out , but as a betting man , my money ’s on the Fruit . [ EFF ]
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