Heiko Recktenwald on Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:24:58 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] On the Digitalisation of Things |
> resting on the ancient Justinian private law notion of property rights I think we are in the middle of a change of paradimg. The situation isnt completely new, but it is the networking, that gives it some more energy, and such developpments need time. There was a time when computers costed millions, the time before the PC. Programs were seen as programs, ideas. This was maybe ok when programming was a dangerous affair. But what the buyer wants is not the idea, the right to use it, but the thing itself. The typewriter, the drawing table, a function, it is ok as long as it works, no matter if he owns a right. Everybody knows it.. There is no reason to treat those digitalised things anyhow different from real things. If you buy a stolen thing, it is ok, as long as the original owner doesnt come and takes it back. Thats what the romans called "habere licere". If somebody is confused: if the seller knows, that the thing is stolen, than the buyer can give it back etc. But this is another case and changes nothing in "habere licere", to be in a position to have something. Heiko _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold