Apple loses virtualisation copyright battle against Corellium

San Francisco, Dec 30 : Apple has lost a copyright battle against Corellium, touted by Forbes as a firm that provided the best cybersecurity product of the year, as a federal judge in Florida rejected Apples claims that Corellium had violated copyright law with its software.
The ruling has wide-reaching implications for iPhone security research and copyright law, reports The Washington Post.
The judge ruled that “Corellium’s creation of virtual iPhones was not a copyright violation, in part because it was designed to help improve the security for all iPhone users”.
“Corellium wasn’t creating a competing product for consumers. Rather, it was a research tool for a comparatively small number of customers,” the report quoted the judge as saying on Tuesday.
The judge deferred ruling on a separate Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) charge, but the result is still a significant setback for Apple.
Founded in 2017, Corellium gave its customers the ability to run “virtual” iPhones on desktop computers.