alt Hacker News> Data can't be owned in the first place. We can debate the merits of copyright but it's not a property right.
This is factually incorrect. I don’t know if you’re unaware of the law or introducing your own beliefs about what it should be, but this is not how the law works.
Which law, copyright? Trademark? Patent?
These are things you can infringe upon, but they all have dynamics that depart pretty wildly from the laws governing property.