> On 2/7/21 12:50 am, Stephen Loosley wrote: >> Tim Berners-Lee’s NFT of world wide web source code sold for $5.4m ...
On 3/7/21 9:36 am, Tom Worthington wrote: > It isn't owned by CERN? It's a complicated discussion, based partly on the meaning of 'it'. Firstly, it's a bundle of things. But I guess the focus is on 'the code'. Neither data nor software is real estate or a chattel, so to the extent that the notion of ownership applies, it's a question of ownership of copyright in one or more works. Copyright-ownership in the first 1990 code would be tricky to establish. And there's a good chance that CERN gave its blessing a long time ago to whatever TBL wanted to do with it. In any case, CERN gets more than enough taxpayers' money for its decades-long, 'high'-science', Alice-in-Wonderland experiments, the history of the Web is an irrelevance, and it would seem unlikely to assert its ownership even if it has a strong case. -- Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected] T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
