As we fill our socials with more and more information about us we need to consider where it is and how it is being used. Sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Netflix and Google operate under a Walled Garden. This sort of system ties everything back to them, and places more control in their hands. This can be done through copyright and licensing.
Boldrin points out that part of copyright is enabling the owner to control the use of intellectual property after it has been sold. But what if we are no longer the owners of our content? Senator Jon Tester said to Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook “You’re making about forty billion bucks a year, and I’m not making any money—it feels as if you own the data”.
My remediation is based around this notion that although many companies claim they do not own our data, it seems strange that they are still able to sell it.
Bees and Bells 