Late last week, the Librarian of Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office filed new rules that would give consumers unprecedented legal authority to fix their own consumer electronics.
“We’re very happy, ecstatic actually,” Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of the Repair Association, told the ABA Journal. “It’s an expanded opportunity to ask for help and hire help.”
Going into effect on Oct. 28, the rules provide exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
