Like to tinker with your car? That could be illegal with potential new law - Help EFF defend your rights

04/29/2015 - 04:01

Kit Walsh 


Vehicle manufacturers like General Motors and John Deere are citing a particularly strange and onerous provision in copyright law to claim that you need permission to tinker with, repair, and innovate around your own car. According to them, you may own the parts, but you don’t own your copies of the car software that makes them work. For months, we have been working to fix that by calling on the Librarian of Congress to issue an exemption to this provision.

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