How an eBay bookseller defeated a publishing giant at the Supreme Court | Ars Technica

How an eBay bookseller defeated a publishing giant at the Supreme Court | Ars Technica: With embedded software now found in countless products ranging from cars to clocks, the question becomes whether rights in these products will be controlled by the owners or by copyright holders. Cisco’s “Internet of Everything” initiative makes the point that the physical world is increasingly blending into the digital world, but Shore sees peril in this trend. "We have to ask ourselves: do we want to be an ownership society or a licensing society?”