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What is ownership??? It has been described as: ownership (the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to another possession, ownership (the act of having and controlling property). ownership (the state or fact of being an owner) I have ownership of this page i.e added my name and comments to it, does this in turn make it mine? if you add to it are we in shared ownership? if you are reading it. am i sharing it? Creative commons allows me to write my views here and/or copy information from the public domain in order for me to take ownership. If i decided to copy information from the public domain paste it here, by process of transfere, does that information become mine? In writting this i intend to copy and pasting various words and texts from the world wide web on various and similar toipcs of interest.Copy right limits on our rights to use information, to communicate knowledge, to be creative in our work and play. Copyright means control, and that control is in the hands of big business. We all hold opinions on issues and we all use similar language to describe or express this, who is to say that what i say is not identicial to what somebody else might say. I am not sure that we as humans are philosophically and physchologically unique from each other. The law needs to provide clarity about legal rights and obligations in the technological sphere with what i can do as a citizian with other peoples information.Some people seem to think that everything that is possible with new technologies should be controlled by copyright, they are saying that the idea of private, non-commercial use belongs in the past. In relation to structural ownership, we can all see the questions of ownership throughout Ireland. vacant ghost estates left to society. Nobody claiming responsibilty, nobody claiming ownership! What does this mean to me and you? --Dellyb 18:45, 7 November 2010 (UTC)