Apple Jailbreaking Legalized with Ruling

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U.S. Government Makes Jailbreaking the iPhone a Legal Exception to the DMCA

A federal ruling on Monday makes it legal to jailbreak an iPhone to install unapproved software so Apple loses some of it’s control over the iPhone. The Library of Congress ruled it legal to circumvent the iPhone controlling what apps will run on the device and which will not.  With the power to define  exceptions to copyright law, the Library of Congress’s ruling comes as a victory to iPhone users.

So, if you own an iPhone and want to unlock or jailbreak the device to install non-Apple certified applications, then great news- it’s now legal to do so, according to the US Government. On Monday, the US Copyright Office released classes of work that breached DRM (Digital Rights Management), but are still considered lawful under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Apple will still be able to release updated that render jailbroken phones inoperable, but nonetheless, it’s still a win for iPhone users.

“This is a really important victory for iPhone owners,” said Corynne McSherry, a senior staff lawyer with the Electronic Freedom Foundation, the digital-rights organization that fought for the change. “People who want to tinker with their phones and move outside of the Applesphere now have the ability to legally do that.”

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