President Barack Obama should address copyright law changes so individuals can...
President Barack Obama should address copyright law changes so individuals can use their devices freely, said Public Knowledge Vice President-Government Affairs Chris Lewis in a YouTube video from the public interest group (http://xrl.us/bogjav). The video was submitted as a question…
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to Obama for his so-called fireside State of the Union “hangout” on Google Plus, scheduled for Thursday; questions that get the most “likes” will be answered live by Obama. “The U.S. Copyright office recently ruled that it would not allow Americans to choose how they use devices and media files that they bought, even when these uses do not infringe on copyrights,” including ripping a movie from a DVD to watch on an iPad or unlocking a cellphone to use it on a different network, Lewis said in the video. “Americans have already spent good money for these devices,” but they can’t use their belongings in the non-infringing ways they want to, he said. “A small and simple edit to copyright law allowing noncommercial and personal uses to be included in the exemptions would fix this unfair rule” without leading to increased piracy. Lewis said that 65,000 individuals have signed an online White House petition asking Obama to address making unlocking cellphones legal.