Who Owns Precise Data Descriptions of Things?

Fascinating look at the ownership of metadata.  Here a more precise description of things that have ever been created.  And then that description allows to do analytics that we could never have done before.  Even analyses we still have not thought of yet.  Fascinating view of who is doing this and the approaches involved.  And then the ownership problem.

Who Owns 3D Scans of Historic Sites?   By Esther Shein 
Communications of the ACM, January 2019, Vol. 62 No. 1, Pages 15-17
10.1145/3290410  ... "