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An Emergent Legal Right to Repair Electronic Devices: Parsing the fine print on repair tolerances.

The article presents the author's views on the legal right to repair electronic devices. Topics of discussion include Massachusetts's right to repair automobiles law passed in 2013, the "Nixing the Fix" report issued by the Federal Trade Commission in May 2021, and copyright and the Digital Millenni...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 65; no. 11; pp. 22 - 26
Main Author: Samuelson, Pamela
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2022
Subjects:
Right to repair movement
Electronic equipment maintenance & repair
Consumer law
Consumer protection
Automobile repair laws
United States. Digital Millennium Copyright Act
United States. Federal Trade Commission
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article presents the author's views on the legal right to repair electronic devices. Topics of discussion include Massachusetts's right to repair automobiles law passed in 2013, the "Nixing the Fix" report issued by the Federal Trade Commission in May 2021, and copyright and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).