Trying to unlock your smartphone? Now you’ve got the law on your side. President Obama has signed into law the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, which was passed by Congress on July 25, 2014. The new law creates an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) “regarding the circumvention of technological measures controlling access to copyrighted software on wireless telephone handsets (mobile telephones) for the purpose of connecting to different wireless telecommunications networks (a practice commonly referred to as ‘unlocking’ such devices).” The Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act essentially overturns an earlier ruling from the US Library of Congress that stated unlocking wireless devices was copyright infringement protected under the DMCA. Read more http://mindofthegeek.com/2014/08/bwatz/unlock-phone-law-smartphone-carrier/
