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App Makers Need Copyright and IP Protections

On July 18, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing debating the so-called “right to repair” for devices like smartphones and tablets as well as larger machinery like cars and tractors. The hearing displayed a limited set of views on whether federal law should create an exception to copyright protections for repair purposes. For small businesses, like the member companies of ACT | The App Association (the App Association), federal mandates to allow open access to otherwise protected software involves [...]

Lost in the Consumer Protection Forest: The Case for Cracking One Nut at a Time

ACT | The App Association has been calling for “The Year of Privacy” since at least 2017, with the hopes that lawmakers in the United States would pass a national privacy law to protect people of all ages who use technology. Despite the fact that we have yet to see a federal privacy law pass in the United States, we have seen a global response to our privacy call with the implementation of a wide range of proposals that generally [...]

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