To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide that the first sale doctrine applies to any computer program that enables a machine or other product to operate, and for other purposes.

United States115th CongressHR-905House of Representatives
Updated: Feb 7, 2017

Summary

You Own Devices Act This bill amends federal copyright law to allow the owner of a machine or other product operated in any part by a computer program to transfer an authorized copy of the computer program, or the right to obtain such copy, when the owner sells, leases, or otherwise transfers the machine or product to another person. The bill prohibits such right to transfer the computer program from being waived by any agreement. Any right to receive modifications to such a computer program relating to security or error correction that applied to the owner of the machine or product shall apply to the person to whom the machine or product and the copy of the computer program are transferred. Nothing in this bill should be construed to permit the owner to retain an unauthorized copy of the computer program after such a transfer.

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  1. Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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  2. Introduced in House

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