Sponsored By: Representative Spartz
Introduced
Creates a limited safe harbor in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for diagnosing, maintaining, and repairing digital farm equipment. The bill would add a new subsection to 17 U.S.C. 1201 to allow circumvention of technological locks and the manufacture or distribution of repair tools when the sole purpose is diagnosing, maintaining, or repairing covered agricultural equipment.
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This bill would let owners and repairers bypass some digital locks on qualifying farm machines to diagnose, maintain, or repair them. It would also let people make, sell, import, or provide repair tools, devices, parts, or services for that purpose without violating certain anti‑circumvention rules. The protection would apply only to "digital electronic agricultural equipment," meaning agricultural products that depend at least partly on attached or embedded digital electronics. If enacted, it would not create new funding or new programs.
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