Our response laid out steps that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), wireless carriers, and Congress could take to make sure copyright law didn't stand in the way of consumer choice.
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The White House policy team convened more than a half-dozen agencies and offices' senior officials to ask a simple question: How can we move this issue forward? After careful deliberation, it was clear to us: The Administration couldn’t agree more with petitioners, and we came out in strong support of again making it legal for consumers to unlock their devices.īut we didn’t just agree we offered a template for how to make it a reality. Over the next 30 days, 114,000 people from across the country signed the petition - crossing the signature threshold needed for an official White House response.įolks here at the White House leapt into action. The petition came in the wake of a decision by the Library of Congress that ended an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and made it illegal for consumers to unlock their cell phones - a process that allows a phone to be used on any compatible network. In January of 2013, internet activist Sina Khanifar started a We the People petition that asked the government to make cell phone unlocking legal.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
517, Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, in the Oval Office, Aug.
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