Similarly, if Sam transferred all his business assets to SamCo when he incorporated it, that too may mean SamCo owns it all.

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Jaron Lanier takes this idea one step further in his new book, Who Owns The Future, where he argues that not only should we all own our own data, but it should all be monetized as well.

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