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Owned

Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom

Cambridge UP, 2017 más...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable
  • Hot Topic

Recommendation

Law professor Joshua A.T. Fairfield’s fascinating – and at times downright scary – study of how digital technology changes property rights touches on real-world court cases as well as on game-world magical swords. Fairfield cautions that society faces a crisis as technology reshapes the complicated arena of property rights. He sounds the alarm about dangerous developments eroding those rights, discusses implications and solutions, and explains why all this matters and what to do about it. getAbstract recommends his timely warning to anyone concerned about property, privacy, digital culture and personal freedom.

Take-Aways

  • You own all your physical possessions outright. But despite what you may think, you own few of your digital items and have little control over them.
  • Changes in technology alter the classic nature of tangible property.
  • Digital technologies create intangible property.

About the Author

Joshua A.T. Fairfield, JD, is a law professor at Washington and Lee University, where he specializes in technology and digital property.


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