Ideas And Personhood

Question 1

Quasi property

Answer 1

Releasing property for free but having the property right to be the one who makes profit from it

Question 2

Body parts

Answer 2

Statutory law strictly limits any continuing interest of a person’s body part

Question 3

Are body parts valued as property?

Answer 3

No, even though body parts cannot be owned they can become owned by transformation. Think of the rule of capture. The body part must be deprived of its natural Liberty to gain ownership of it.

Question 4

Property in ones ideas and expressions

Answer 4

Trademark law protects the first person or entity to use a distinctive mark in commerce. Requires the trademark to be distinctive, non functional and first in trade