Who owns the information?
Daniel Hanson,
Since the eighties, we've been told that we've begun an Information Revolution similar in scope to the great industrial revolution - in fact we've been told this so often that it now seems like little more than an overused cliché. At the same time, the growth of the personal computer has indeed revolutionized how we interact with our world. Many of us have moved from interacting primarily in a physical world to an electronic one, first where only a few pioneers were found, but then finally into a world that anyone can watch and experience. You no longer have to know how to play music by ear or from sheet to enjoy the music. Your understanding of the world is no longer limited by the size of your "dead tree" library. Much more information is available from your easy chair, but what does this mean for the ownership of information?