Crucially, intellectual property does not afford the owner the option to destroy the dataset

All that has been said about property above (in §24.00.00) is also applicable to intellectual property: it means control over a dataset (which is, however, dematerialised); it gives to a Being (human or organisation) the ability to allow or prohibit another’s processing operation over that specific (dematerialised) dataset. Ultimately, intellectual property is an attribute of a specific dematerialised dataset that dictates whether and what type of processing on it is allowed, by which Being(s) and under which conditions. Crucially, however, intellectual property does not afford the owner the option to destroy the dataset. Unlike traditional property, this being its distinctive characteristic, owners of intellectual (dematerialised) datasets cannot destroy them once they have been created, that is, once they have materialised and come into existence in the analogue or the digital world. Apparently, the replication of the traditional property system was unsuccessful—and this accounts for the dysfunctions of the intellectual property system.

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