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US legislation would exempt mobility device repair from DMCA liability

By Melissa Ritti ( August 27, 2025, 20:09 GMT | Insight) -- Less than a year after the US register of copyrights implored legislators to make permanent exemptions to liability for the legitimate repair of equipment encumbered by technological protection measures, Congress is seemingly heeding the call.Those who diagnose malfunctioning mobility device software and make necessary repairs have been doing so at risk of violating the anticircumvention provisions of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, since its enactment in 1998....

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