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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.

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"Perzanowski and Schultz start off by providing a fine summary and analysis of both how clouds and content streaming work and the implications in terms of ownership and rights. . . . As the book shows quite beautifully . . . there is a perverse incentive for many of those involved to keep the whole story as obscure and unfathomable as possible. This analysis - detailed and impressive - shows how the combination of law and technology works against the users." - Times Higher Education

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Aaron Perzanowski is Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University. Jason Schultz is Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law and Director of NYU´s Technology Law and Policy Clinic.

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