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We learn the word "mine" in childhood. And when we grow up, the idea of ownership is natural, regardless of whether we buy a cup of kava or a house. But who owns the space behind your seat on the plane - you or the passenger behind you? Why is it wrong to plagiarise a recipe or design a cloth? Who owns the land under your house and who owns the air above it? It turns out that ownership is a lot more complicated than we thought.

What exactly can we call "our own" and where are the boundaries of our power? Michael Geller and James Saltzman not only provide answers to these questions, but also show that there are only six simple rules that people use to claim everything. The authors combine interesting thoughts about ownership with exciting, and sometimes violent, stories from business, courtrooms and everyday life. Written on the crossroads of law, economics, psychology and politics, the book "Mine!" shows how symbolic ownership can sometimes replace the real one, and how some companies make money by making ownership of things that are not at all object-oriented, such as the absence of the need to stand at the back door.

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