This book is all about what ownership really means, and how it is defined/claimed. After a brief introduction, the authors then point out some of the loopholes and gray areas of ownership, and then explore these in depth.
The thing I liked about this book is that it made you think in a different way, and presented things from multiple points of view. These viewpoints really clarified their point, that ownership really depends on the case made for it, and rarely things are in black and white.
Often these competing claims of ownership end up before a judge, and this book really made clear how difficult a judge’s job would be.
My only minor complaint about this book is that it is focused on the United States and the legal system there, with only a few comparisons to other countries and their laws of ownership. Certainly including international laws would make this a completely different book, but it was sometimes hard to care about laws that no longer affect me since I live somewhere else.
Still, it was a good book – anything that changes the way I think is a pleasure to read. Next I’m reading two books simultaneously: Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, and I Alone Can Fix It by Carol Leonnig.
