Who owns your HBO password?
A new book explores the hidden rules of ownership â of streaming accounts, pharmaceuticals, and the space behind a reclining airplane seat.
By David Scharfenberg Globe Staff,Updated March 4, 2021, 3:38 p.m.
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Why is it that most of us wouldnât dream of stealing a DVD of âGame of Thrones,â but many of us are willing to share an HBO password?Helen Sloan/HBO via AP
In the summer of 2014, businessman James Beach boarded a Newark-to-Denver flight and deployed the Knee Defender, a $22 plastic brace that prevented the woman in front of him from reclining.
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In the new book Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (Doubleday), UCLA School of Law professor James Salzman reveals the hidden rules that govern who owns what – from the reclining space behind airline seats to HBO passwords for streaming shows.
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