H.R.6879 - Farm Freedom to Repair Act 118th Congress (2023-2024) |

To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic agricultural equipment.

To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic agricultural equipment.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

SEC. 2. Diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic agricultural equipment.

“(l) Diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment.— (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.

“(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(2), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof described in that subsection.

“(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b)(1), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof described in that subsection.

“(4) For the purposes of this subsection, the term ‘digital electronic agricultural equipment’ means any agricultural product dependent, in whole or in part, upon attached or embedded digital electronics to function.”.