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<div class="card"><DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT><div class="mw-parser-output"><h1><span class="mw-headline" id="proprietorising">proprietorising</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/mw-mediadesign/index.php?title=User:Simon/Proprietorising&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: proprietorising">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1>
<p>see also <a href="Keeping_private.html" title="User:Simon/Keeping private">keeping private</a>
</p><p>Information, in the form of descriptions that abstract themselves from the flux of common experience, is owned by private individuals or companies. Information is property, under the law. But laws should reflect the interests of the public. The “public interest” for individuals to profit from their (and others) labour competes against another more public, public interest, one which sees information as common property, or one that rejects any notion of information having proprietary substance. The word “information” is related to both the Latin verb <i>informare</i> meaning “to shape, to form an idea of, or to describe, and its cognates from the substantive “forma”, which was used meaning character, form, nature, kind, and manner<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup>.
</p><p>Description seems to be the primary function of this word “information”, giving shape to experience; the very stuff of language and communication. Information has a social interest. It follows then that the most beneficial use of information would be one that serves the social good. The collective, social act of sharing information should not be trumped by individual financial interests. Never trust a corporation to do a librarians job.
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1"></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hobart, M.E. and Schiffman, Z.S. (1998) <i>Information ages: literacy, numeracy, and the computer revolution</i>. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.</span>
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