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The end of ownership: personal property in the digital economy

โœ Scribed by Perzanowski, Aaron;Schultz, Jason

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2018;2016
Tongue
English
Series
The information society series
Edition
First MIT Press paperback edition
Category
Library
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โœฆ Synopsis

If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the ebooks or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don't own those purchases, you merely license them. That means your ebook vendor can delete the book from your device without warning or explanation — as Amazon deleted Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of surprised readers several years ago. These readers thought they owned their copies of 1984. Until, it turned out, they didn't. In The End of Ownership, Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz explore how notions of ownership have shifted in the digital marketplace, and make an argument for the benefits of personal property.Of course, ebooks, cloud storage, streaming, and other digital goods offer users convenience and flexibility. But, Perzanowski and Schultz warn, consumers...

โœฆ Subjects

Commerce รฉlectronique--Droit;Internet--Droit;Propriรฉtรฉ;Propriรฉtรฉ intellectuelle;Proprieฬteฬ;Internet -- Droit;Commerce eฬlectronique -- Droit;Proprieฬteฬ intellectuelle

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