The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108837651)

In recent decades, companies around the world have deployed an arsenal of tools - including IP law, hardware design, software restrictions, pricing strategies, and marketing messages - to prevent consumers from fixing the things they own. While this strategy has enriched companies almost beyond measure, it has taken billions of dollars out of the pockets of consumers and imposed massive environmental costs on the planet. In The Right to Repair, Aaron Perzanowski analyzes the history of repair to show how we've arrived at this moment, when a battle over repair is being waged - largely unnoticed - in courtrooms, legislatures, and administrative agencies. With deft, lucid prose, Perzanowski explains the opaque and complex legal landscape that surrounds the right to repair and shows readers how to fight back.

Author: Aaron Perzanowski
ISBN-10: 1108837654
ISBN-13: 9781108837651
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2022
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.80h x 8.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2022