the Netherlands' highest court said the virtual objects had an intrinsic
value to the 13-year-old gamer because of "the time and energy he
invested" in winning them while playing the game
had perceived value and were under the exclusive control of a player
WoW Gold farming
Sued AAMI after they refused to pay out for her 75 bars of real gold
buillion she bought with profit from WoW
Planet Calypso: $US 6 Mil
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What is property?
in relation to a textbook
Ownership of the chose in possession based in possession
Copyright
The words themselves
The cover image
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Bikram Choudhury case
1
st
time a court definitely stated that the actual practice of
Bikram yoga cannot be protected by copyright law
Judge Otis D. Wright, II, based his judgement on the copyright office's revised
position this June stating that as a functional system (which promotes physical
and mental benefits) yoga postures cannot be registered for copyright
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Batista case
Long Island doctor Richard Batista to estranged wife: Give me my kidney
back or $1.5M
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Iran kidney trade
May 2015, the health minister put the price tag at 15 million toman ($4,400 at
open market rates). In the interview, Arman asked patients not to go to the
unofficial market, where prices are higher
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Bazley v Wesley Monash IVF Pty Ltd
[2010] QSC
Court was faced with a long line of authority that holds that there is no
‘property’ in a human body or a corpse, however, it held that the semen was
property and that it was being held under a bailment. The wife was entitled to
its ownership after her husband died.
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University degrees
Typically, the couple will have accumulated few tangible assets because they
funnelled all their resources into one spouse's education with the mutual
expectation of future rewards. Consequently, the dissolution of the marriage
leaves the parties in a situation in which the "tablecloths will not cover both
tables”
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Blackstone’s commentaries
“Property is that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and
exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of
any other individual in the universe”
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Kevin and Susan Gray
“The term ‘property’ is simply an abbreviated reference to a quantum of
socially permissible power exercised in respect of a socially valued resource”
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Kevin Gray
“But the ultimate fact about property is that it does not really exist: it is mere
illusion. It is a vacant concept – oddly enough rather like thin air.”
“property’..[is] a legally endorsed concentration of power over things and
resources:
Yanner v Eaton
[1999] HCA 53
“Frequently the lay person (and even the lawyer) falls into the trap of
supposing the term ‘property’ to connote the thing which is the object of
‘ownership’. But the beginning of truth about property is the realisation that
property is not a thing but rather a relationship which one has with a thing. It is
infinitely more accurate, therefore, to say that one has property in a thing than
to declare that the thing is one’s property”
