U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights

U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE ISSUES NEW RIGHTS
[SOURCE: Associated Press 11/22, AUTHOR: Anick Jesdanun]
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 last week. Other copyright exemptions approved by the Library of Congress will let film professors copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations and let blind people use special software to read copy-protected electronic books. The new rules took effect Monday and expire in three years.
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* Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/