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Ownership of “Information” In the Digital Environment

Information Cannot Be Owned by Jean Nicholas Druey, April 2004:

  • “Apart from technology, the information age has up to now badly served its idol. It has failed sufficiently to recognize specific features of information. This is shown with respect to the question whether legal rights on information can take the form of ownership. The answer is negative considering that communication by its very nature is free and constitutes a basic value, and furthermore that law is itself information and cannot systematically dispose of information flows.”
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