Overview - What is property?
- Is Property "Naturally occuring'?
- What social policy shapes property?
- How does technology design shape property?
Is Property "Naturally occurring'?
...rivers are natural
Is Property "Naturally occurring'?
...maps shape and name the natural
Is Property "Naturally occurring'?
...farms and towns, which need water.
Is Property "Naturally occurring'?
...and cities. Farmers claim water rights.
Is Property "Naturally occurring'?
...cities need water
Is Property "Naturally occurring'?
...more water
Can technology alone change property rights?
Technology Creating and Changing Property
"Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music," Steve Jobs, Thoughts on Music (February 6, 2007)
Public policy purpose/effect?
Links
For more information see:
- Transparent, Accountable Datamining Initiative (TAMI): http://groups.csail.mit.edu/dig/TAMI
- Policy Aware Web project (PAW): http://www.policyawareweb.org/
- Feigenbaum and Weitzner (eds.), "Report
on the 2006 TAMI/Portia Workshop on Privacy and Accountability."
- Weitzner, Abelson, Berners-Lee, Hanson, Hendler, Kagal, McGuinness,
Sussman, Waterman, Transparent
Accountable Data Mining: New Strategies for Privacy Protection,; MIT
CSAIL Technical Report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2006-007
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(27 January 2006).
Work described here is supported by the US National Science Foundation
Cybertrust Program (05-518) and ITR Program (04-012).
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