ABSTRACT

The traces of digital information are exponential ...
They contain various sources...
They travel, scattered, being trade - transacted or serve as a found footage for an artistic interventions...
Traces of digital data are tangible. Events or evidences, which meant to be deleted from a system...
they serve as a subject of recovery, revisit and exposure...

INTRO

This text will departure from the notion of property and ownership to digital property/ digital rights and digital ownership. The definition of property according to history, law, cultural studies ( intellectual property / copyright ad copyleft regimes) and art in order to examine the question of the digital property.

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use value the power of the copy or hard to distinguish from the original ( +, - )

argument: digital object allows multiple copies of one single file, reproducing an accurate / exact copy of the original. Comparing with the analog object where every copy modifies the original. Moreover each copying of the copy introduce / induce noise to the copy and the original itself.
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share value or the digital object inherit the distribution value

argument: tangible and intangible properties of the digital object or the lost of the physicality, so it makes it difficult to apply the same laws.

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expanded storage / the impossibility to delete the digital file / missing erase button

the extend of the storage / memory capacity to save, preserve and archive.

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revisit the copyright law and break the myth of the ownership of digital object.
argument: Copyright enclosure is build on top of the laws, applied to physical property. It can not be applied to the digital objects because of the nature of the digital and the listed properties.

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Owned by nobody, the web could become the common property of all. (R.B)
argument: The digital / digitization made us believe that the knowledge can be free / share and common for all. Investigate cloud services and the private corporations entering into the public domain.

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Bibliography (so far):
Kleiner. Dmytri / The Telekommunist Manifesto

Hyves. Lewis // Common as air

Banner. Stuart / American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own (Harvard) University Press, 2011); Who Owns the Sky?

Barbrook. Richard / [The Regulation of Liberty: free speech, free trade and free gifts on the Net]

notes on :
Blackstone. William
Locke. John / Of property

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I will map a research from art practices as appropriation, DADA, ready-made and SI applied to my own practice or the current grad project retrieving hard drives and using the information out of them for my own purpose.

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old version:

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<<The story of Ghana digital trash camps: <<< e-waste, data remanence, data thief or how the data can be recovered and serve as an evidence Questions about e-waste and digital recycling, digital trash and data recycling.
<<<'data erasure' term - or the only way to erase data permanently is physically to destroy a hard disk drive. In the past shredders were used to destroy confidential, secret papers now there are replaces by data shredders.