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From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Ownership of files (/etc/passwd)
Message-ID: <1991May5.121352.5662@santra.uucp>
Date: 5 May 91 12:13:52 GMT
References: <1991May4.043306.3647@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
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In-Reply-To: dbarberi@rodan.acs.syr.edu

In article <1991May4.043306.3647@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, dbarberi@rodan writes:
>	What should the laws of 'file ownership' be?  Can a file
>	in your home computer or directory be considered personal property?

I sure hope information can not be considered property, but
unfortunately at least some US courts (or is it prosecutors ?) seem to
think differently.

For more information and discussion on this, see March 1991
Communications of the ACM.  There's an article handling just this
question, can information be considered property, and also many other
articles which probably are valuable to EFF readers.

//Jyrki