What rights do you have over the things that you own?

It used to be that if you bought something and it broke, you could pull it apart and fix it yourself.

But over the last few decades, companies have used design decisions, intellectual property law and software controls to make that much harder.

It all adds up to a lot more purchases and a lot more waste.

In the Drawing Room, Aaron Perzanowski, the John Homer Kapp Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University and author of The Right to Repair, explains how we got to this point, and how change could occur.