Regulated and non-regulated dematerialised information

As is obvious, the concept of intellectual property applied to dematerialised information (all materialised information (i.e. artefacts) already being covered by the concept of property. However, after this concept was introduced by legislators, developments took two different paths. The part of dematerialised information that was considered valuable (that which is unique, original, technically useful, distinctive etc.) was protected as a new type of property, intellectual property (IP), to distinguish it from the traditional type of property. The remaining part of dematerialised information, if any (it is not certain that anybody cared to copy tax or military records or other large repositories of mundane information, although it can be imagined that, e.g. transmissions of state data between state agencies qualified as such), remained unregulated and unclaimed (uncontrolled).

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