[Air-l] ethics - aol data

[Jim Porter]

> But that's an odd conception of "owned," isn't it? I still own my horse,
> even after it gets out of the barn, because I hold a property interest in
> it.

But horses are not intellectual property. They are material/physical
property, subject to different property rules. Or at least I thought so. So
I want to raise a question about this analogy, an analogy that I see RIAA
and other copyright maximalists advancing (or, more frequently, assuming):
i.e., the effort to elide the difference between physical property and
intellectual property. I'm not really advancing a claim here so much as
raising a question. I'm curious about the implications of this analogy and
would appreciate some elaboration on it.  Jim



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James E. Porter
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Writing in Digital Environments
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Michigan State University
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