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by Aurornis 34 days ago
> Data can't be owned in the first place. We can debate the merits of copyright but it's not a property right.

This is factually incorrect. I don’t know if you’re unaware of the law or introducing your own beliefs about what it should be, but this is not how the law works.

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Which law, copyright? Trademark? Patent?

These are things you can infringe upon, but they all have dynamics that depart pretty wildly from the laws governing property.

Intellectual property law.