SHALLA: U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights
By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer Wed Nov 22, 5:45 PM ET
NEW YORK - Cell phone owners can now break locks to use their handsets with competing carriers, while film professors have the right to copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations, the U.S. Copyright Office said Wednesday.
Other rights declared in the government's triennial review of the 1998
Digital Millennium Copyright Act seek to improve access for the blind and to obsolete works and let security researchers try to break copy-protection technologies embedded in CDs.
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