The Law of Mobility: MIT-Stanford VLAB - who "owns" your location?

By Michael Bates on October 17, 2007 9:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Russ McGuire of Sprint Nextel writes regarding what mobile telephone service providers might be able to do for you based on where you are: "I argued that 'ownership' is the wrong concept since 'where someone is' does not fit the model for intellectual property - information that can be owned. The real question is who can control how that information is used and who can make money from its use?"

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