Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms

Re:Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair ... by harimau777 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @01:59PM (#18302978)

Could interoperability be argued to be returning them to their original specifications in some cases?

E.g. the product could interact with most computers when it came out, but since then a competitor has come onto the scene and the manufacturer hasn't implemented features to make it work with them. Therefore, jailbreaking and making it work with them would sort of be returning to what the situation was when you first purchased.

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Re:Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair ... by yellowapple on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:35PM (#18303349)

17 U.S. Code § 1201 (f) already seems to provide some protection for reverse-engineering (including the circumvention of "technical measures") if it's done for the purpose of making a program interoperable with other programs.

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