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Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership. Sure, we pay for their vehicles. But we don’t own them. Not according to their corporate lawyers, anyway.
In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delusion, John Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery maker —told the Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors. Because computer code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers receive “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.”
It’s John Deere’s tractor, folks. You’re just driving it.
The Copyright Office’s rationale for this change is that an owner of a tractor should be allowed to access, change, or repair the vehicle’s software without the original manufacturer’s approval. John Deere and others disagree.
Why? According to John Deere, the software on modern agricultural equipment is crucial to its operation. Emissions, safety, performance, and reliability are all dependent on properly functioning software. Fear of nefarious hackers is also part of Deere’s concern. Imagine a hacker taking control of a 500 horsepower tractor remotely and driving it into a crowd. Less emphasized, but perhaps more important to John Deere, TPM’s prevent competitors from easily accessing and copying Deere’s proprietary operating software.
WIRED exaggerates to make its point. John Deere is not suggesting it owns a farmer’s tractor. But Deere is claiming it owns the rights to the software. John Deere states: “A vehicle owner does not acquire copyrights for software in the vehicle, and cannot properly be considered an ‘owner’ of the vehicle software.” John Deere points out that there are many parts on tractor that can be repaired without accessing the software, so not every machine repair would require a John Deere technician.
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Ассоциации фермеров, механиков, специалисты по компьютерной безопасности и представители обществ по защите прав потребителей сейчас упорно сражаются, чтобы расширить список исключений.
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