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The End Of Ownership: Personal Property In The Digital Economy, Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz
The End Of Ownership: Personal Property In The Digital Economy, Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz
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An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we “buy” in the digital marketplace.
The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
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 …