Private Law Theory

Aaron Perzanowski, ‘Consumer Perceptions of the Right to Repair’, 96 Indiana Law Journal 361 (2021). Property scholars have long noted a gulf between the way laypeople think about ownership and how property law actually works. This gulf has widened in the digital age, as our beliefs about what we own and what ownership means have not kept pace with our complicated relationships with digital goods. Consider, for example, the furor that arose a decade ago when it emerged that Apple insisted that iTunes users did not own purchased music files outright but had only a lifetime license to use them. In a sparkling essay, Aaron Perzanowski explores the distance between the perception and reality of ownership in the context of the emergent right to repair … (more)

[David Fagundes, JOTWELL, 28 March]

First posted 2022-03-29 11:00:21