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The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy (Information Society Series) by Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz, Laura DeNardis, Michael Zimmer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy (Information Society Series) about?
An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we “buy” in the digital marketplace.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 should be aware of the tradeoffs involving user constraints, permanence, and privacy. The rights of private property are clear, b
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- Author
- Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz, Laura DeNardis, Michael Zimmer
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262035019
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Law, Business, Engineering
Other editions & translations
- The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy (The Information Society Series) (2016)
- Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz: The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2017, 264 pp, Hardcover (2018)
- The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy (Information Society Series) (2017)
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