US Copyright Office says jailbreaking phones still legal, but tablets aren’t included
The US Copyright Office has upheld the legality of jailbreaking phones, but rejected appeals to extend the same protection to tablet computers. In its triennial review of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Federal Register says that since the category of tablets is difficult to define it would be dangerous to issue a blanket exemption — for instance, it could theoretically apply to e-readers and portable game consoles. This may be so, but with the ever-increasing size of phones it seems arbitrary to make the distinction based on whether a device has a radio and earpiece or not. Elsewhere, the Copyright Office rejected appeals to legalize making personal backups of DVDs, as well as modifying game consoles
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US Copyright Office says jailbreaking phones still legal, but tablets aren’t included
