Glossary / Right to repair
Right to repair
The principle, increasingly written into law, that owners should be able to fix what they bought — a counter-pressure to closed, unrepairable hardware.
Introduced in Chapter 19 — The Bill Comes Due of Tangibles.
Related terms
- EU Battery Regulation — The 2023 EU regulation requiring portable-device batteries to be removable and replaceable by users with commonly available tools.
- EU Ecodesign — EU rules whose delegated acts will, by 2030, make minimum spare-parts availability and software-support periods binding requirements for CE marking.
- Parts pairing — Electronically binding each replacement component to a specific device so firmware rejects unauthorized parts — a core mechanism behind repair restrictions.
- Recurring revenue — Income that repeats — subscriptions, services, consumables — rather than a one-time sale.