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A New Advocacy Group Is Lobbying For The Right To Repair Everything

A New Advocacy Group Is Lobbying For The Right To Repair Everything

by The Daily Eye Team February 5 2016, 4:36 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 27 secs

Repair groups from across the industry announced that they have formed The RepairCoalition, a lobbying and advocacy group that will focus on reforming the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to preserve the “right to repair” anything from cell phones and computers to tractors, watches, refrigerators, and cars. It will also focus on passing state-level legislation that will require manufacturers to sell repair parts to independent repair shops and to consumers and will prevent them from artificially locking down their products to would-be repairers.

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