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HR 5586 113th Congress House

You Own Devices Act

Official title: To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide that the first sale doctrine applies to any computer program that enables a machine or other product to operate.

Introduced: September 18, 2014 See on congress.gov
Commerce Computer security and identity theftComputers and information technologyIntellectual propertyLease and rental servicesRetail and wholesale trades
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 28, 2014
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
Sep 18, 2014
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Sep 18, 2014
Introduced in House
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 Latest action October 28, 2014

Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5586: You Own Devices Act. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-5586/
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"H.R. 5586: You Own Devices Act." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-5586/.
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H.R. 5586, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-5586/.
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