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Gearheads push rights to work on your car < MTAtech > 2015-05-09 13:42

Hundreds of independent mechanics, gearheads and automotive enthusiasts have come together and implored the US Copyright office to protect their right to repair cars.

More than 300 written comments have been submitted to the federal office, which will soon decide whether to grant an exemption in copyright law that preserves the legal right of outsiders to fix or modify their vehicles.

A period to comment on the proposed exemptions closed April 30, and this week the Copyright Office released the latest comments, which come from large organizations and individual citizens alike. A broad majority of those who wrote support an exemption.

"For over a century many American motorists have maintained and personalized their cars or trucks," wrote AAA, the nation's largest motoring organization. "They do so to save money, to fix a problem, to adjust a vehicle to better meet their driving needs, or simply because they enjoy working on the vehicle that they own. This sort of 'tinkering' is a critical element of the American car culture. Failure to recognize an exemption threatens this part of our car culture."

What's changed over the past century is that cars aren't just mechanical in nature anymore. Whether drivers realize it or not, today's cars are largely controlled by dozens of small computers called electronic control units. In this copyright dust-up, automakers and equipment manufacturers have argued the software and code that run these ECUs are proprietary and protected by copyright law.

In short, they don't want outsiders messing around with that coding, and believe unauthorized modifications could lead to malfunctions and car accidents. The Copyright Office will hold hearings on several proposed exemptions later this month, and decisions are expected sometime in June or July.

At stake is whether home mechanics can continue to fix cars in their own garages. But the possible restrictions don't only affect car enthusiasts. More broadly, the ruling could affect whether consumers can continue to choose their own mechanics. Should the Copyright Office deny an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's Section 1201, automakers could only authorize repairs at dealerships or sell the access codes necessary to repair cars to preferred service shops.




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For Routine Maintenance I'm in Agreement.  But for Modification's,, Not So Much.

 

 



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