Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
11-6-2019
ISSN
2330-1295
Publisher
JOTWELL
Language
en-US
Abstract
We have long understood that people have a right to repair what they own, but this right to repair is under siege. A new article by Leah Chan Grinvald and Ofer Tur-Sinai explains how IP rules are inhibiting these repair rights and why laws protecting the right to repair are necessary and justifiable. As I explain below, authors Grinvald and Tur-Sinai describe the growing right to repair movement pushing for legislation to protect the right to repair and show how intellectual property laws should facilitate not interfere with consumers rights to repair what they own. The authors also propose a theoretical framework through which they analyze the intellectual property doctrine as enabling rather than inhibiting of consumer rights..
Recommended Citation
Jessica Silbey,
Right of Repair in the Digital Economy
,
in
JOTWELL
(2019).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1379
