The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy

by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262035014
• ISBN13: 9780262035019
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher