US Congress House Bill 905 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: Introduced on February 7 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-07 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

You Own Devices Act

Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]

Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]

Rep. Jason Lewis [R-MN]

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-07	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2017-02-07	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/905/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr905/BILLS-115hr905ih.pdf