In contrast to Mr. Lee's intangible work, the recent exhibition "Impressionist Still Life," at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, could have been called "Possession".
Perhaps we could include more personality-based restrictions on what can be done with an intangible work after the first sale, limit the term of copyrights, patents, and trade secrets to something more reasonable, and find ways to embrace technologies that promote access while protecting incentives to innovate.
Perhaps the best way to protect these intuitively attractive personality-based claims to intangible works is to adopt a more comprehensive system designed to promote progress and social utility.
Second, in some cases our personality becomes fused with an object thus moral claims to control feelings, character traits, and experiences may be expanded to intangible works (Humboldt, 1792; Kohler, 1969).
Second, even if it could be established that individuals own or have moral claims to their personality, it does not automatically follow that such claims are expanded when personalities become infused in tangible or intangible works.
Putting aside the strands of argument that seek to justify moral claims to intangible works and the rather focused problems with these views, there are several general critiques of the rights to control intellectual property to consider.
In evaluating Tebow, he has obvious assets like size and athleticism, and a superabundance of intangibles: work ethic, leadership and some elusive or illusory traits that make him "a winner".
The intangible effect works both ways.
The lack of engagement is partly because the internet is intangible, and the work to build the new infrastructure has largely involved burying cables in remote areas away from the cities.
Normally when wages are slashed to zero, there will be fewer people lining up to do the job, but there is another intangible force at work here: Prestige.
These include both tangible (technology, physical environment) and intangible (psychosocial culture, work practices and procedures) elements and environments.
