RE: Can Copyright Law Defeat the Technocratic Surveillance State? Drive a Hard Bargain because your Personal Data is your Prosperity

But to what extent? If I quote you, is that ok? But what if you copyrighted that quote?

I am not a lawyer, but I do know that current law exempts such cases as fair use if money isn't involved.

I favor ownership rights of physical items. However, can you really own a picture of an item?

This was Thomas Jefferson's argument that all information should not be "owned". However, he lost that argument (I believe to John Adams) in favor of the idea of "intellectual property". History went down the latter path, so yes one can own a picture of an item. Because of technology, we are going down a very slippery path in regard to finance and information. Bitcoin has proven that they can be woven into one and become a singularity. This development is likely to steamroll over current case law in the near future.