Shows
Engelberg Center Live!Conspicuous Consumers: How AI Impacts ConsumptionMala Chatterjee, Columbia Law SchoolDeven Desai, Georgia Tech Scheller College of BusinessAaron Perzanowski, University of Michigan Law SchoolJason Schultz, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law (moderator)
2025-10-301h 19
Engelberg Center Live!Conspicuous Consumers: Sustainability in the Eye of the BeholderMaggie Chon, Seattle University School of LawAaron Perzanowski, University of Michigan Law SchoolJessica Silbey, Boston University School of LawAnna Tischner, Jagiellonian University in KrakowRochelle Dreyfuss, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law (moderator)
2025-10-271h 15
The Most Important Question(Re)Introducing The Science of FictionThis week we're rerunning our 2024 episode with Maddie Stone, writer of The Science of Fiction blog, to celebrate the fact that Maddie has joined our team and The Science of Fiction now lives at Important, Not Important. The Science of Fiction explores the real-world science behind fictional monsters and alien planets, and stuff like that.Quinn and Maddie get into the reasons why The Science of Fiction was a perfect fit for Important, Not Important, and then we get into their conversation from last year.More on Maddie:Maddie is a...
2025-10-061h 19
Marketplace TechWhat does ownership mean in the digital age?There’s a new class action lawsuit against Amazon Prime Video that’s once again elevating the question of ownership in the digital age: Who actually owns a movie, a song, a video game?Buy a physical copy, like a CD or DVD, and the answer is obvious. But buy a digital copy, and the answer gets very complicated. Marketplace’s Nova Safo spoke with Aaron Perzanowski, a law professor at the University of Michigan and author of the book “The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy,” to learn about the current state of digital...
2025-09-1710 min
A Fashion Law Dinner Party with Fashion by FeliciaA Special Edition Fashion Law Dinner Party: The 2025 Met Gala For fashion lawyers and scholars, the Met Gala is a dream hypothetical. This year, it was even more so thanks to the Gala's theme "Tailored to You" and the exhibition the Gala celebrated, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. A celebration of black fashion heritage and black cultural heritage, the looks on the blue carpet raised legal questions. How does the Zoot Suit, a core part of the historic concept of a dandy, spur creativity in fashion thanks to its status as part of the public domain? Can we spot separable elements of Rosalía's dress? What was functional and what w...
2025-05-1350 min
TED BusinessWhy don’t companies want you to repair your stuff? | Aaron PerzanowskiToday, some companies are working hard to prevent consumers from repairing products on their own. In many cases, repair can only be done by the original manufacturer, if at all. With limited repair options available, we end up buying new and throwing more items out. So, how exactly do companies prevent repair? And what can consumers do about it? Aaron Perzanowski investigates. [Directed by Nick Hilditch, narrated by Addison Anderson].After the talk, Modupe focuses on the term "planned obsolete" and why you should advocate for more transparent repair options. Hosted...
2025-02-2408 min
The Most Important QuestionThe Science of FictionWhy is it so important that we share the science of fiction, and what do we do with it once we have it? That's today's big question, and my guest is Maddie Stone. Maddie is a prolific science journalist. She is a doctor of earth and environmental sciences. She's the former science editor of the technology website Gizmodo, which I love, and the founding editor of Earther, Gizmodo's climate focused vertical, which I love.Maddie has edited articles for The Verge, Polygon, and Grist, and her original and award winning journalism has appeared...
2024-06-031h 04
Digital CitizenRepairing Our Right To Fix it with Aaron PerzanowskiWe dive into the Right to Repair with Aaron Perzanowski. Hear about the benefits of fixing our own devices rather than replacing them and the reasons why some companies create roadblocks to prevent the average consumer from doing so. Episode Notes Discover the social and intellectual function of repair, why our Right to Repair as consumers is so important, the ways companies are making this right difficult for the average person, and the environmental implications of buying new products rather than fixing the ones we already have. ▶️ Guest Interview - Aaron Perzanowski Learn...
2024-05-1438 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierAaron Perzanowski on Bottom-up Creativity & the Right to RepairProfessor Aaron Perzanowski of the University of Michigan Law School explains how many artistic communities flourish as commons, without copyright protections that privilege private ownership and marketization. Tattoo artists, fashion designers, chefs, and stand-up comedians are among the communities that don't strictly own their primary creative works. This ethic of bottom-up collaboration and sharing also flourishes in many repair commons, where resourceful people have created pools of shared knowledge and peer-support to fix broken products. Corporate manufacturers are trying to suppress the "right to repair" movement, but repair-commoners are making significant gains these days.
2023-12-0151 min
Michigan MindsDigital Ownership and the Right to RepairAaron Perzanowski, JD, joins Michigan Minds to talk about digital ownership, the tradeoffs that occur when purchasing digital products instead of physical, and issues that consumers should be aware of involving user constraints, permanence, and privacy. Perzanowski is the Thomas W. Lacchia Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and teaches and writes about the intersection of intellectual and personal property law. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-08-2829 min
Have A Nice Future | WIREDNothing You Own Is Really YoursGideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Aaron Perzanowski, a University of Michigan Law Professor and author of two books on our shifting definitions of ownership, The End of Ownership and The Right to Repair. They dive into why “buying” something means less than it used to and if consumers have any hope of clawing back some semblance of ownership rights from big corporations.
2023-08-0237 min
The Daily Show: Ears EditionDo You Have the Right to Repair Your Products? | Beyond the ScenesFrom iPhones and tractors to medical equipment, many products are designed to be unfixable by the average person. Host Roy Wood Jr. sits down with YouTuber and owner of the Rossmann Repair Group, Louis Rossmann, and Law Professor at the University of Michigan, Aaron Perzanowski to discuss how manufacturers limit customer’s repair options, the environmental impact of purchasing new products rather than repairing old ones, why it costs consumer’s more, and how the right to repair movement is hoping to fix this consumer issue. Original Air Date: April 18, 2023.
Beyond the Scenes is a podcast from The...
2023-06-0453 min
Beyond the Scenes from The Daily ShowDo You Have the Right to Repair Your Products?From iPhones and tractors to medical equipment, many products are designed to be unfixable by the average person. Host Roy Wood Jr. sits down with Youtuber and owner of the Rossmann Repair Group, Louis Rossmann, and Law Professor at the University of Michigan, Aaron Perzanowski to discuss how manufacturers limit customer’s repair options, the environmental impact of purchasing new products rather than repairing old ones, why it costs consumer’s more, and how the right to repair movement is hoping to fix this consumer issue. Watch the original segment: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
2023-04-1852 min
Zoomer Week in ReviewTrends Affecting Zoomer Relationships & The Right to RepairThe bombshell that led to the resignation of Toronto Mayor John Tory underscores some long term trends affecting many in the Zoomer demographic: a lengthy marriage in trouble, a much younger woman, a relationship apparently born during a very intense and stressful time at work. Libby Znaimer talks with Family Demographer Rachel Margolis, of the University of Western Ontario.
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It seems unfair. Many manufacturers force consumers to use only their own proprietary services and components when they need to repair products they have paid good money for. The Right to Repair is the movement to change that. Libby reached...
2023-02-1919 min
Fight to Repair PodcastEP 1 | Winning the War on Repair with Aaron PerzanowskiFor our inaugural episode we welcome Aaron Perzanowski, author of the book The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own to discuss just how we arrived at a point where institutions and corporations have become hostile to repair – and what tools we have at our disposal to fight back. Aaron lends his legal expertise to help us understand the role that antitrust regulations, intellectual property law, and market power play in reclaiming our right to repair. News Roundup Links:Should Right-to-Repair Laws Extend to Bionic Body Parts?Filibuster kills agricultural right to re...
2022-06-0846 min
Factually! with Adam ConoverThe Right to Repair with Aaron PerzanowskiDo we really own the devices we buy? ‘The Right to Repair’ author Aaron Perzanowki joins Adam to explain how companies are using their power to control the products we buy from them, even after they’ve left the store, and prevent us from repairing them ourselves. They discuss how this affects the environment, the livelihood of farmers, and the longevity of AirPods, and Aaron shares resources on how we can take power back and do our own repairs. You can purchase Aaron’s book at http://factuallypod.com/books
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2022-05-111h 11
The Restart Project PodcastRestart Podcast Ep. 75: The law and repair: it’s complicated, with Aaron PerzanowskiThis month, we welcomed back Aaron Perzanowski to talk about his new book, The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own. In the book, he explores how we got to this point of companies weaponising the law to make repair inaccessible and how legal reform can help. We discuss the developments in the technological and legal landscape that pushed him to revisit the topic of repair.
What we lose with ‘centralised’ repair
Perzanowski’s writing on ‘communities of common interest’ will particularly resonate with the Restart community. He explains the multiple ways that authorised repair syste...
2022-04-2841 min
Fight to Repair PodcastEP 1 | Winning the War on Repair with Aaron Perzanowski This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fighttorepair.substack.com/subscribe
2022-04-2536 min
TechdirtThe Right To RepairFive years ago, we were joined on the podcast by author and law professor Aaron Perzanowski to discuss his book about the impact of copyright on property in the digital age, The End of Ownership. That book touched on the issue of repairing devices and the ways companies make it difficult, but his new book, The Right To Repair, puts this topic in the spotlight. This week, Aaron joins us to discuss the history and future of the right to repair around the world.
2022-03-1545 min
Law BytesEpisode 112: Aaron Perzanowski on the Right to RepairThe right to repair, whether consumer electronics, farm machinery or even health and medical equipment, is an issue that affects everyone. Given the implications for consumer and property rights, the sustainability of the agricultural sector, and protecting the environment, ensuring a right to repair would seem like an obvious political winner. Yet the issue has lagged, not the least of which because of restrictive copyright laws that can limit the ability to repair personal property.
Aaron Perzanowski is a law professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio and the Associate Director of...
2021-12-1341 min
In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVAaron Perzanowski and the Right to RepairWherein we are joined by law professor Aaron Perzanowski to discuss his new book The Right to Repair! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-11-221h 00
The Bulwark Goes to HollywoodWhat Does a 'Buy' Button Really Mean in the Digital Age?When you click “buy” on a digital product at Amazon or Apple, as opposed to “rent,” what do you think that means? Most folks think of it like buying a physical copy of a thing: they can sell it or pass it down to heirs. But as Aaron Perzanowski, a professor at Case Western, notes in his sit-down with Sonny Bunch, that’s not really the case: you’re just buying a license to a thing. And if that license to Amazon or Apple ends? Well, so does your access to the thing you think you “bought.” On this week’s Bulwark G...
2021-10-2837 minThe Restart Project PodcastRestart Podcast Ep. 67: Reflecting on repair during the pandemicOur summer podcast season has come to a close and what a time it’s been! We revisited our archive and picked some of the episodes where our discussion touched on the pandemic and the events of the last eighteen months.
Throughout the episode, we hear select clips from nine recent guests and situate these discussions. We cover healthcare, from patents and barriers to medical device repair. We reflect on how workers in the electronics industry have been negatively affected including those working in factories in Asia, to professional repairers on the high streets of London.
Fa...
2021-08-2639 min
Bande à part123: ClownsWe unexpectedly become fascinated with clowns and their make-up, including Joseph Grimaldi. See links below.
Leichner Kosmetik: https://www.cosmeticsandskin.com/companies/leichner.php
Dave Fagundes and Aaron Perzanowski, The fascinating reason why clowns paint their faces on eggs, BBC Future (6 December 2017): https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171206-the-fascinating-reason-why-clowns-paint-their-faces-on-eggs
Costume worn by Joseph Grimaldi (1800-1823), Museum of London: https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/794735.html
Carold Reed (director), Veniero Colasanti (costume design), Trapeze (1956): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049875/
Mode Circus Knie, Textilmuseum St. Gallen (7 March 2019 – 19 January 2020): https://www.textilmuseum.ch/modecircus/
Jean-Antoine Watteau, ‘Pierrot, formerly known as Gilles’ (c. 171...
2021-01-2425 minThe Restart Project PodcastRestart Podcast Ep. 51: Copyright law, ownership and crisis with Aaron PerzanowskiFor our March episode, we dare to dive into the increasingly complex world of intellectual property law – a topic suddenly becoming ever more pertinent in the face of a global pandemic. Dave is joined by Aaron Perzanowski, a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. We talk about how developments in the electronics consumer market are posing new complications in the relationship between manufacturers and consumers. Perzanowski’s latest book, written with co-author Jason Schultz, ‘The End of Ownership’ explores many of these questions.
The shifting nature of ownership
We ask fi...
2020-03-2739 min
Ipse DixitDave Fagundes & Aaron Perzanowski on Clown Eggs & Property NormsIn this episode, Dave Fagundes, Baker Botts LLP Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center, and Aaron Perzanowski, Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University College of Law, discuss their paper "Clown Eggs & Property Norms," which will appear in the Notre Dame Law Review. Among other things, Fagundes and Perzanowski describe the Clown Egg Register, an collection of (mostly) ceramic eggs used to document the appearance of well-known clowns. They explain why the Register was created, and how clowns use it to not only to police informal ownership norms in their appearance, but also to...
2018-11-0735 min
Full - The Glenn Beck Program'Reason and Facts Matter' - 10/3/18Hour 1
Did Dr. Ford lie under oath?...about 'never' coaching others to take polygraphs...act of perjury?...the America people must recognize we are fighting 'postmodernism' or we are done...'individual justice' is Christian, 'collective justice' is not? ..."President Trump has balls", unlike the last few Presidents, Obama, Bush, Clinton ...Last week Kavanaugh's chances looked 'dicey', this week, not so much?...a victim of 'mob justice'?...Difference between assumed and presumed?...look at facts and play the odds = numbers don't lie
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America is $21 Trillion in Debt?...Unsustainable ...The End of Ownership with Aaron Perzanowski, Professor of Law, Case Western...Artic...
2018-10-031h 50
Oral ArgumentEpisode 151: Hungry GhostsWe talk with Dave Fagundes about sharing, abandoning, and property law's role in promoting happiness. Topics include the usual nonsense, notions of happiness, consumption and acquisition, charity, and home ownership.
This show’s links:
Dave Fagundes's faculty profile and writing
David Fagundes, Why Less Property Is More: Inclusion, Dispossession, and Subjective Well-Being
About Life Is Beautiful
About Marie Kondo
David Fagundes, Buying Happiness: Property, Acquisition, and Subjective Well-Being
Roger Crisp's entry on Well-Being in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (including discussions of Bentham's notion and preferentist accounts)
About Mr. Burns, character from The Simpsons
Rebecca Solnit, Th...
2017-11-051h 28TechdirtThe End Of OwnershipThe basic impetus behind DRM is obvious: a frantic, misguided desire to make digital products behave like physical ones. But the truth is DRM goes far, far beyond that, restricting all sorts of activities that are intrinsic to the idea of "owning" something. Two people who have thought a lot about this are law professors Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz, authors of the new book The End Of Ownership. This week, Aaron and Jason join the podcast to discuss the book and the worrying status of DRM today.
2017-03-2846 min
Radio MotherboardThe End of OwnershipThe internet of things, End User License Agreements, and Digital Rights Management are increasingly being used to give electronics manufacturers control and ownership over your stuff even after you buy it. Radio Motherboard talks to Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz, authors of The End of Ownership about what we stand to lose when our songs, movies, tractors, and even our coffee makers serve another master. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2017-02-1239 minRadio MotherboardThe End of OwnershipThe internet of things, End User License Agreements, and Digital Rights Management are increasingly being used to give electronics manufacturers control and ownership over your stuff even after you buy it. Radio Motherboard talks to Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz, authors of The End of Ownership about what we stand to lose when our songs, movies, tractors, and even our coffee makers serve another master. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2017-02-1239 min
The Deadly Arnold - there is no fate.Deadly Arnold #23 - art and ownership w/ Professor Aaron PerzanowskiDeadlyArnold.org | http://JCALdigital.orgToday Josh is joined by Professor and author Aaron Perzanowski.Aaron is the Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University and also the co-author of one of Josh's favourite books of 2016, The End of Ownership (co-authored with Jason Schultz).End User License Agreement (EULA) - is a legal contract between a software application author or publisher and the user of that application.Some links for pondering:• Aaron's Twitter: twitter.com/APerzanowski• www.theendofownership.com/abouttheauthors• www.noted.co.nz/archive/listener-…ft-of-lewis-hyde/qz.com/766535/terms-of-se...
2017-02-1230 min
Listen To The Award-Winning Full Audiobook Now, Busy Professionals!The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy by Aaron Perzanowski, Jason SchultzPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/278906to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy
Author: Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz
Narrator: Richard Powers
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Release date: November 11, 2016
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, or sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the e-books or other digital...
2016-11-1110h 03
Don’t Miss This Edge-Of-Your-Seat Full Audiobook — Perfect This Weekend.The End of Ownership by Aaron Perzanowski, Jason SchultzPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/17395to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The End of Ownership
Author: Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz
Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia
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Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
Release date: 11-11-16
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 78 ratings
Genres: History & Culture
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Title: The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy
Author: Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz
Narrator: Richard Powers
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Release date: November 11, 2016
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1
Genres: Computers & Technology
Publisher's Summary:
If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, or sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the e-books or other digital goods you...
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Title: The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy
Author: Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz
Narrator: Richard Powers
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Release date: November 11, 2016
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, or sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the e-books or other digital...
2016-11-1110h 03Oral ArgumentEpisode 54: No ThrottlingChristian finds himself among two telecommunications and IP experts, Joe and guest Aaron Perzanowski, to discuss the FCC’s recently issued regulations mandating some form of “net neutrality” on broadband internet providers. Will these regulations hold up? Why does your cable company want to provide you with “antivirus” software? What did we receive in the mail last week? Which listener thinks we’re full of it? It’s all in this week’s show.
This show’s links:
Aaron Perzanowski’s faculty profile and writing
Episode 52 and Episode 53 on King v. Burwell
William Baude, Could Obama Bypass the Supreme C...
2015-03-271h 43Oral ArgumentEpisode 4: Grow a PearFrom far northern climes, we are joined by Sarah Schindler, land use and property expert, hipster scholar, and lawn destroyer. In this episode we discuss Maine, backyard chicken raising, zoning, Brasília, the virtues and pleasures of law-breaking, and banning lawns. Sponsored this week by the Monsanto Corporation. Not really.
This show’s links:
Sarah Schindler’s faculty profile and writing
Errata! Jukkasjärvi and its ice hotel are in Sweden, not Finland. Apologies to our Swedish listeners.
Aaron Perzanowski, Tattoos and IP Norms
David Fagundes, Talk Derby to Me: Intellectual Property Norms Governing Roller Derby Pseudo...
2014-01-181h 10