I've been lurking off and on here for years. Let me isolate this one notion
that rhino quoted of Jefferson:

"It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an
individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and
stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all
others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called
an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it
to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the
possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it."

Interesting thing, that. Wouldn't it naturally apply to such details as an
individual's address, phone number, or e-mail address? Don't privacy laws as
those being debated in the EU give an individual an exclusive "coypright" to
their own personally identifiable data?

Hmmmm....

Parker

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