right to repair

European activists fight for right to repair electronics

At a table scattered with tools and wires, volunteer repairers sit across from the owners of an assortment of inoperable electronics. The volunteers at a free “repair cafe” in Copenhagen disassemble and diagnose gadgets while the customers watch, each doing their part for the environment – one broken blender, radio or laptop at a time. […]

U.S. Copyright Office endorses right to repair

The U.S. Copyright Office is intensifying its legal defense in improving digital devices by submitting its latest anti-circumvention exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to forbid breaking software copyright protection. Section 1201 anti-circumvention exemptions are recommended by the Register of Copyrights every three years. A procedure that delivers legal protections distributed on various […]