Jailbreaking iPhone is now Legal, But not on iPad

Jailbreaking an iOS device has always been unclear. But not now, The Copyright Office issued an exemption to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act jailbreaking a device does not violate US copyright law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with many others have been appealing to the Copyright Office to make exemptions to the DMCA legalizing the customization of a device you own.

The exception was granted to allow users to use a program that’s available on one platform, but not others. And the ruling goes beyond just iPhones, and might apply to the Android platform as well.

According to the document:

“In order to ensure that the public will have the continued ability to engage in non-infringing uses of copyrighted works…. It provides that the prohibition shall not apply to persons who are users of a copyrighted work in a particular class of works if such persons are, or in the succeeding three-year period are likely to be, adversely affected by virtue of the prohibition in their ability to make non-infringing uses of such works”

 So this is a good thing! But it doesn’t make the landscape much clearer, because now there’s legal fragmentation for the iOS jailbreaks.

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