Karnow, Curtis E. A. “Data Morphing: Ownership, Copyright and Creation.” The MIT Press 27 (1994): 117-122.

Curtis Karnow offers an insightful analysis of the impact of the current virtual world on copyright relevance. After laying out the basic tenets of copyright culture and the ease with which content can be morphed he concludes that as technology produces a more complete virtual world copyright would in fact disintegrate. While copyright is indeed a useful and necessary right that helps define property, the technological revolution changes the very essence of property putting it in a chaotic and unstable environment that is virtual reality. In effect there are two consequences of property: (1) the elimination of invariable objects that render authors incapable of owning their own works, and (2) the amalgamation of structure, surface, background and fact.

This article contributes because current culture is more clearly defined as virtual and briefly explains how this is significant for copyright. The argument is that context is crucial in determining copyright use but when context merges with everything else it is like copyrighting the universe.