Owned - Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom

Informationen zum Autor Joshua A. T. Fairfield is a Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University, Virginia. He is an internationally recognized law and technology scholar of digital property, electronic contract, big data privacy, and virtual communities. He has published articles in top law journals, as well as The New York Times, Forbes and the Financial Times. In 2012–13 he was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study trans-Atlantic privacy law. Klappentext Owned provides a legal analysis of the legal, social, and technological developments that have driven an erosion of property rights in the digital context. Zusammenfassung Owned explains how the increasing implementation of smart technology in our world today has changed the nature of property. Fairfield explains property theory and the legal regime of online ownership as it ties to the 'Internet of Things' - the interconnected system of digital technology as controlled by corporations who own the software needed to run these devices. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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?

Product details

• Authors: Joshua A T Fairfield, Joshua A. T. Fairfield
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107159358
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15935-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; LAW / Intellectual Property / General, LAW / Property, intellectual property law, Property law: general, property law