Thursday, 8 April 2010

Questions about ownership of the ANW

The ANW exists upon real space. Someone's house can have all sorts of articulated spaces or advertisements but does the owner of the house own that space? The answer is yes I think. It may not make sense for it to be otherwise.

At the moment there are no laws about the new virtual world of digital overlaid on physical objects. What would the future bring?

Would an AN billboard automatically be owned by the owner of the physical billboard? Yes. I guess that would make sense. The alternative would be a free market in ANW space and the potential for new 'stolen' billboards or other aggressive marketing tactics is high.

Anywhere where reviews are posted could delete unfavourable reviews? Yes. That would be inevitable unless there was a free 'layer' of the ANW that was unmoderated like alt. newsgroups.

And for free? If the law was the ownership of property came with the ownership of the land area and body of the property in virtual space then it would be hard to justify a charge unless the business take tried to exploit this opportunity was successful long before a legal challenge.

But what about the street? Who owns that? Would that be left anarchic or would it become moderated by a large, provider that sold advertising space to fund the free ANW platform for users?

And what if a company wanted to advertise using the sky in the ANW? I don't know who would own the sky in the ANW.


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