US Congress House Bill 862 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Introduced on February 11 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-16 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

You Own Devices Act 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. Prohibits such right to transfer the computer program from being waived by any agreement. Requires 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 to apply to the person to whom the machine or product and the copy of the computer program are transferred. Prohibits this Act from being 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. Thomas MacArthur [R-NJ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-16	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
2015-02-11	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2015-02-11	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/862/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr862/BILLS-114hr862ih.pdf