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For years, the mobile phone industry applied the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to create software locks that control user access to particular firmware in a mobile phone. Consequently, a mobile telecommunications provider could effectively prevent a user from switching a phone to a competitor's network. But late last year, acting under a DMCA provision, the Librarian of Congress changed that. Timothy C. Meece and Aseet Patel of Banner & Witcoff examine the DMCA exemption.