Comment on Cellebrite claims it can unlock any iPhone, many new Android phones for policeparentComments−boredishBoi7yIt is my understanding that under the DMCA the security measures themselves are copyrighted works and breaking them is a violation of the DMCA in and of itself. That’s why breaking DRM, even if it’s to access public domain works is still illegal.−javagram7yI don’t think that understanding is correct. Content in the public domain is not “protected under this title [copyright law]”https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
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It is my understanding that under the DMCA the security measures themselves are copyrighted works and breaking them is a violation of the DMCA in and of itself. That’s why breaking DRM, even if it’s to access public domain works is still illegal.
I don’t think that understanding is correct. Content in the public domain is not “protected under this title [copyright law]”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201