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Wondering what to put in my submission on the Consumer Guarantees (Right to Repair) Amendment Bill. An amendment to s226 Copyright Act 1994 to state that repair is a "permitted act" against which TPM's do not apply? https://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/member/2024/0039/latest/whole.html
s226D copyright Act says "The rights that the issuer of a TPM work has under section 226B do not prevent or restrict the exercise of a permitted act" (which is why we all had region free DVD players here). If repair is not a "permitted act", then it can be effectively prevented by TPMs, which is I understand was a problem in Canada untilt hey fixed it https://theconversation.com/updates-to-canadas-copyright-act-bring-consumers-closer-to-the-right-to-repair-your-devices-241535
Right to Repair bills become law in Canada. This one particularly intriguing;
"Bill C-244 creates a new exception allowing for circumvention of TPMs for the purposes of “repair, maintenance and diagnosis.” And Bill C-294 creates a new exception allowing circumvention to make any computerized device interoperable with any other computerized device or system."
#AnthonyDRosborough, 2024
#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link.
I'm not sure how I missed these actually being passed and given assent. It's not a full repeal of the user/consumer-hostile anti-circumvention law, but between them they allow diagnosis, repair, and interoperability between systems. It also explicitly lets you do it for someone other than yourself, which is critical - existing exceptions have generally only meant you could break DRM for yourself, meaning 99% of people could never do it.
It's fantastic.
https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2024/lois-statutes/YX4-2024-26.pdf
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