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The Right to Repair reveals how companies stop us from fixing our devices and explains how we can fight back.
List of contents
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Why repair matters; 3. The history of repair; 4. Breaking repair; 5. Repair and intellectual property; 6. Repair and competition; 7. Repair and consumer protection; 8. Rebuilding repair.
About the author
Aaron Perzanowski is an expert on ownership in the digital economy and the conflict between intellectual and personal property rights. His research has appeared in leading academic journals. He's the co-author of The End of Ownership (2016) with Jason Schultz, and the co-editor of Creativity Without Law (2017) with Kate Darling.
Summary
Companies design their products, business models, and marketing strategies to stop us from repairing the devices we own. In doing so, they extract untold billions of dollars from consumers, stifle competition, and inflict massive damage on the planet. This book explains how we can harness the power of law to regain control over technology.
Foreword
The Right to Repair reveals how companies stop us from fixing our devices and explains how we can fight back.
Additional text
'The Right to Repair is a riveting account of the multi-faceted ways in which developers of a wide range of devices today inhibit or thwart the ability of consumers to fix those devices, ways in which laws sometimes reinforce the developer restrictions, and various strategies by which a repair-friendly landscape could be renewed. Consumers have largely ignored the high costs of buying unfixable devices - not just to their pocketbooks but also to the environment. The nascent right to repair social movement is gaining momentum. To understand why, read this book!' Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
