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TEH 135: What do we really own? Has tech changed it?

Jun 3, 2021 · 1 hr 2 min · 59.6 MB
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In This Episode: What do we really own? Has tech changed it?

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

  • You Don’t Own What You Think You Own.
    • Music. You can’t play it in public, can’t record your own version. Copyright means you get the rights to do different things.
    • Software. You can only run it on a certain number of machines, can’t sell copies, can’t make your own version.
    • Book. You “own” the book. You can give it away, but can’t copy it, or take the text as your own.
    • Kindle. Tied to your Amazon account, you can’t give it away.
    • CDs and DVDs. You used to be able to copy them easily, but it wasn’t legal.
    • Buy a computer. You can’t produce your own copy of the chips or design, or software. Patents.
  • Trying to find examples of what you do own:
    • Land? Nope You just own the deed with covenants.
    • Food? Nope. (Ask Monsanto).
    • Water? Nope again, because there are water rights.
  • Do we have a right to repair the things we “own”? (https://www.repair.org/ & https://securepairs.org/)

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