New Values under Old Oil and Gas Leases: Helium, Who Owns It?

Who owns Children and does it Matter?∗

Most countries seem to have experienced a shift in the property rights over children. While two centuries ago parents had extensive control over their children, laws have been implemented in many countries to curb these control rights and thereby essentially led to the self-ownership of children. In this paper, we first document these changes, then argue that the property right allocation alter...

Who owns your DNA? who will own It?

Q uietly and doggedly, a race is going on in laboratories around the world—the race to determine who will own human heritage. calls the US and British sequencing teams chasing the full sequence of the human genome at breakneck speed. On the other side is the private sector, most notably Craig Venter, PhD, chief scientific officer of Celera, a genomics company. Each group has the same mission: t...

Who Owns Intelligence?

Who owns 'culture'?1

No one owns the concept 'culture'. Anthropology's long-standing proprietary claim on the concept rests on three sorts of contentions none of which are convincing. Anthropology's overwhelmingly interpretive approaches to cultural materials have led to a preoccupation with the details of cultural materials at the expense of formulating explanatory theories. This has, among other things, rendered ...

Who Owns Child Abuse?

Expectations of contemporary child protection apparatuses are strongly influenced by beliefs inherited from the nineteenth century child rescue movement. In particular, the belief that child abuse determination is obvious. However, this assumption fails to make a distinction between nineteenth century’s emphasis on impoverished environments and the twentieth century introduction of the patholog...