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The legal fiction that you can press a fence into the universe and call it yours.
means The exclusive right to possess, use, control, and dispose of a thing — and exclude everyone else from it.
from From Old English 'agen' (own), rooted in 'agan,' to possess; 'ownership' as the state of owning surfaced in the 1700s as property law hardened into rights.
Bundle theoryLawyers see ownership as separable sticks, not one block.
Possession gapYou can own what you've never touched.
Digital twistMost bought media is licensed, not owned.