Appropriation

As has been seen, the mechanism of establishing property is simple: any time that control over a dataset is allowed by one Being to another, and processing takes place, new information is created. If this new information materialises (in the analogue or digital world) then its creator exercises control over it that may (or may not) constitute property, depending on the state (specifically, on the government and the political system) the creator lives in. In other words, whenever a human is allowed to interact with a dataset, new information is created (thoughts, feelings, wishes) in that human, over which, if this leads to creation of another (i.e. a new) dataset (be it in the analogue or the digital world), that same human may have property rights (or not), depending on the state in which the human lives and its political system. The same is true for new, previously unknown datasets (existing in Nature); the first human to discover them exercises control over them, which may amount to property depending on the state in which that human lives.

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