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What is Right to Repair
The FSF fights for your right to repair
Organizations fighting for the Right to Repair globally
EFF's Right to Repair campaign page
Free Geek is a group out of Portland. They repair old hardware, install open operating systems, and make it available to disadvantaged communities.
OpenMedia is a Canadian advocacy group for digital rights. Fight For Your Right to Repair campaign page
IFixit has collaboratively written repair guides, and is a good resource for both users and activists.
Repair.eu ; the EU focused advocacy group for Right to Repair.
Repair.org ; the leading US advocacy group for Right to Repair.
The Restart Project ; a founding member of the Right to Repair campaign in Europe.
SecureRepairs ; led by 2022 FSF Award winner Paul Roberts. On this page, you'll find updated resources and a blog on why the Right to Repair is at the core of advancement of the technology industry
the U.S. PIRG Right to Repair campaign , led by Nathan Proctor, drives legislation at the state level
For a society free of planned obsolescence
ARRL is the national association for Amateur Radio in the US.
Audio
Why the freedom to tinker matters by Techdirt and Kyle Wiens
Videos to watch
Fight to Repair by the FSF
* Watch the video
* Translation page for this video
Right to Repair animation videos:
* https://yewtu.be/watch?v=3NMfgZsB2no
* https://yewtu.be/watch?v=LFNxyDjrpNE
LibrePlanet talks related to Right to Repair
* The future of the right to repair and free software by Elizabeth Chamberlain, iFixit, 2023.
* It’s time to jailbreak the farm by Sick Codes, Kevin Kenney, Elizabeth Chamberlain, Paul Roberts 2023.
* Repair is not a crime: An update from the front of the Right to Repair fight by Kyle Wiens, iFixit, 2022.
* A dispatch from the front lines of right to repair by Paul Roberts, SecuRepairs, 2021.
* Right to Repair by Kyle Wiens, iFixit, 2021
* The Right to Repair and the DMCA by Nathan Proctor, 2020
* Stewarding Technological Freedom in Agriculture by Michael Stenta, Jamie Gaehring, and Don Blair, 2020.
CNBC feature on Right to Repair.
* https://yewtu.be/watch?v=IqxwnmlUUts
Interesting reads
Free software at the core of the right to repair by Zoë Kooyman, Spring Bulletin 2023
Paul Roberts from SecureRepairs has a blog about the subject
New York Times article about Right to Repair in 2020
Kyle Wiens and Gay Gordon-Byrne speak about the Right to Repair in Spectrum 2017
Tabitha Whiting, How we created a throwaway society, June 2019
Stef Schrader, Farmers Are Having to Hack Their Own Tractors Just to Make Repairs Feb 2019 (article accessible without running Javascript.)
John Deere Promised Farmers It Would Make Tractors Easy to Repair. It Lied. Feb 2021 (article accessible without running Javascript.)
Why France’s New Tech ‘Repairability Index’ Is a Big Deal Feb 2021
Farmers ask for 'right to repair' March 2021
Ending over mending: planned obsolescence is killing the planet Mar 2017
Colorado Denied Its Citizens the Right-to-Repair After Riveting Testimony article accessible without running Javascript, April 2021)
Right to Repair is overdue - and consumers are already leading the charge April 2021
'It's your device, you should be able to repair it' April 2021 (article accessible without running Javascript.)
Biden Sets Up Tech Showdown With ‘Right-to-Repair’ Rules for FTC July 2021 (article accessible without running Javascript.)
Apple founder Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement July 2021 (article accessible without running Javascript.)
Today it’s cool, tomorrow it’s junk. We have to act against our throwaway culture Aug 2021 (article accessible without running Javascript.)
Why right to repair matters – according to a farmer, a medical worker, a computer store owner Aug 2021 (article accessible without running Javascript.)
Without ‘right to repair,’ businesses lose time and money Aug 2021
Apple Brazenly Stifles Right To Repair For iPhone 13 Displays By Killing Face ID Sep 2021
John Deere–Backed Lobbying Groups Host Anti-Right to Repair Conference Oct 2021
Apple’s New Screen Repair Trap Could Change the Repair Industry Forever Nov 2021
Alabama farmer sues John Deere for ‘right to repair’ Jan 2022
A Fight Over the Right to Repair Cars Turns Ugly Feb 2022
Right to Repair Groups and Farmers Unions File FTC Complaint Against John Deere Mar 2022
A new jailbreak for John Deere tractors rides the right to repair wave Aug 2022
The US Army embraces right-to-repair at least superficially
John Deere Must Face FTC Lawsuit Over Its Tractor Repair Monopoly, Judge Rules
Some successes
June 2025 [1 ] Right to repair becomes law in Washington state
March 2024 [2 ] *Right to Repair Act* passed Oregon legislature
May 2023 [3 ] Minnesota’s new ‘right to repair’ law is the broadest one yet
April 2023 [4 ] Colorado governor signs first right-to-repair law for farmers
January 2023 [5 ] John Deere allows some repairability
December 2022 [6 ] New York’s governor signs watered-down right-to-repair bill
April 2022 [7 ] Apple launches self repair
The latest developments per country
Create a page about Right to Repair in your country, or read about what you can do to help in your region!
This page was a featured resource in April 2023.
This page was a featured resource in February 2021.
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