Ownership

Definition

From the Wikipedia:

"Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be an object, land/real estate, intellectual property (arguably) or some other kind of property. It is embodied in an ownership right also referred to as title." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ownership)

Description

"What constitutes ownership?

Ownership is by its very nature exclusive. It means that you, granted by society or by your own strength (given if you live in an area plagued by social chaos) holds a physical object, a bit of land or a privilegie, and that you have the right to interfere and punish people who also are trying to use that property.

Some things are naturally exclusive, as the food you have been eaten or the (particular) energy you have used in operations of electronic equipment. Some things could be made exclusive through laws or the use of force, like most of the things you are owning - these things are thus exclusable. Some things are naturally inexclusive, like air or a stream of fresh water.

In most of Europe, the usual way to organise the administration of property or land, is to deal it out in the forms of ownerships, which are sellable (and then of course buyable), rentable and possibly to use as a security for debt. By definition, we could then say that Europe works by allocating out ownerships and reaffirming them through legal and physical means (police, courts).

The ownership grants are very different in size and forms, and the rules tend to vary between European countries, but yet, the general tendency is clear. We are supposed to operate the machinery, the water and the living we have through ownership." (http://en.technocracynet.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=155&Itemid=137)

Discussion

1. Ownership of Software vs. Ownership of Goods
2. Open Source - Ownership

More Information

See the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/private_ownership

1. Property vs. Possession
2. Ownership vs. Usership

Also:

1. Citizen Ownership
2. Mutual Home Ownership

Listen or watch:

1. Rishab Ghosh on 200 Years of Collaborative Ownership
2. Karl Fogel on the History of Copyright and Information Ownership