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- catalog abstract ""David Koepsell demonstrates that it is nothing more than a medium of human expression. The term "cyberspace" is misleading if it suggests a dimension beyond ordinary experience. Cyberspace is revolutionizing our lives, yet ontologically it is "nothing very special."" "Popular culture is filled with misconceptions about cyberspace, mistakenly envisioned as a strange, "virtual" realm of intangible objects with bizarre properties defying common sense. In fact, electrical charges take up space as atoms take up space. Bits and bytes, like printed letters, exist in ordinary space and are objects of ordinary experience." "Koepsell carefully defines and examines such entities as bits, bytes, algorithms, programs, software, networks, the Internet, e-mail, Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS), Usenet threads, and Virtual Reality (VR), making their ontological status clear." "While earlier philosophers have failed to address the ontological problems of cyberspace, the legal system is grappling with its practical problems. Software has bewildered jurists, who cannot decide whether it is an "expression," covered by copyright law, or a "machine," subject to patent law. Professor Koepsell dispels some of the confusions in legal thinking and discusses possible reforms in the law of intellectual property."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11796652.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""David Koepsell demonstrates that it is nothing more than a medium of human expression. The term "cyberspace" is misleading if it suggests a dimension beyond ordinary experience. Cyberspace is revolutionizing our lives, yet ontologically it is "nothing very special."" "Popular culture is filled with misconceptions about cyberspace, mistakenly envisioned as a strange, "virtual" realm of intangible objects with bizarre properties defying common sense. In fact, electrical charges take up space as atoms take up space. Bits and bytes, like printed letters, exist in ordinary space and are objects of ordinary experience."".
- catalog description ""Koepsell carefully defines and examines such entities as bits, bytes, algorithms, programs, software, networks, the Internet, e-mail, Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS), Usenet threads, and Virtual Reality (VR), making their ontological status clear." "While earlier philosophers have failed to address the ontological problems of cyberspace, the legal system is grappling with its practical problems. Software has bewildered jurists, who cannot decide whether it is an "expression," covered by copyright law, or a "machine," subject to patent law. Professor Koepsell dispels some of the confusions in legal thinking and discusses possible reforms in the law of intellectual property."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-133) and index.".
- catalog description "Ontology: Its Correct Object and Method -- Some Methodologies of Legal Ontology -- The Legal Ontology of Intellectual Property -- The Legal Ontology of Software -- The Commonsense Categories of Cyberspace -- Artifice and Expression -- A New Ontology of Cyberspace -- Implications of the New Ontology of Cyberspace.".
- catalog extent "xv, 139 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Ontology of cyberspace.".
- catalog identifier "0812694236 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ontology of cyberspace.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago, IL : Open Court,".
- catalog relation "Ontology of cyberspace.".
- catalog subject "346.04/82 21".
- catalog subject "Copyright and electronic data processing Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Cyberspace Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Industrial property Methodology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Intellectual property Methodology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "K1401 .K64 2000".
- catalog subject "Ontology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ontology: Its Correct Object and Method -- Some Methodologies of Legal Ontology -- The Legal Ontology of Intellectual Property -- The Legal Ontology of Software -- The Commonsense Categories of Cyberspace -- Artifice and Expression -- A New Ontology of Cyberspace -- Implications of the New Ontology of Cyberspace.".
- catalog title "The ontology of cyberspace : philosophy, law, and the future of intellectual property / David R. Koepsell.".
- catalog type "text".