You Own Devices Act

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.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

1. 7 February 2017

   Introduced

   Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 7 February 2017

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 7 February 2017

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

• Introduced in House · 7 February 2017 · Official file

Documents

3 official files

• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 7 February 2017

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 7 February 2017

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 7 February 2017

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Blake Farenthold · R · Sponsor
• Jared Polis · D · Sponsor
• Jason Lewis · R · Cosponsor
• Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] · R · Cosponsor
• · hsju00 · Standing

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.