Owned
Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom
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- Author: Joshua A. T. Fairfield, Washington and Lee University School of Law
- Date Published: August 2017
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107159358
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In this compelling examination of the intersection of smart technology and the law, Joshua A. T. Fairfield explains the crisis of digital ownership - how and why we no longer control our smartphones or software-enable devices, which are effectively owned by software and content companies. In two years we will not own our 'smart' televisions which will also be used by advertisers to listen in to our living rooms. In the coming decade, if we do not take back our ownership rights, the same will be said of our self-driving cars and software-enabled homes. We risk becoming digital peasants, owned by software and advertising companies, not to mention overreaching governments. Owned should be read by anyone wanting to know more about the loss of our property rights, the implications for our privacy rights and how we can regain control of both.
Read more- Engaging and exhaustively researched, with clear and copious examples which explain complex legal problems with accessible stories
- Proposes a new theory of property-as-information, explaining how to make traditional property rules work online
- Makes property theory accessible to a general audience, helping readers understand the reach and role of the institution of property in society
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'Property in the digital age is getting strange. You can own things you can't see or touch, like Bitcoins. But your ownership of things you can, like your car and your phone, has never been less secure. Owned is an essential guide to how not to get owned by the things you think you own.' James Grimmelmann, Cornell University, New York
See more reviews'The transition from an economy built around physical goods to one premised on the exchange of information presents profound challenges for traditional notions of personal property. Nothing less than our autonomy, security, and privacy are at stake. In Owned, Fairfield illuminates the path forward for property. He offers a powerful theoretical vision and a set of practical reforms that could help us restore control over our digital futures. Aaron Perzanowski, co-author of The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy
'The Internet of Things presents new threats to liberty. You don't own your front door; the company running its software does. Fairfield tells us how law needs to change to protect our ancient rights of ownership over the things we buy.' Edward Castronova, Indiana University
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- Date Published: August 2017
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107159358
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 157 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The death of property
3. Surrounded
4. So what?
5. Private property
6. Property as information
7. The future of property
8. Jailbreaking ownership
9. Owners or owned?
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