# Digital ownership

`kaal:entity:digital-ownership`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `digital-ownership`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 1 works, 2025 to 2025.

**2025**

- [5886342-016](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886342-016) [condition/asserted] -- Digital ownership under the Codex is control dependent: it requires direct or indirect control over the digital object, so ownership without any technical control is not recognised.
  > (3) Digital Ownership requires direct or indirect Control over the Digital Object.
  Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Stephan D. Meyer, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886342
- [5886342-018](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886342-018) [mechanism/asserted] -- First ownership of a digital object arises from a factual event rather than from registration or grant: it is established once the first legal identity acquires digital control of that object.
  > The first digital ownership on a Digital Object is es- tablished once the first Legal Identity acquires Digi-
  Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Stephan D. Meyer, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886342
- [5886342-019](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886342-019) [design/asserted] -- A good faith acquirer of a digital object from an unauthorized transferor obtains protected digital ownership, but is obliged for five years after the transfer to retransfer that ownership to the initial owner against compensation of the purchase price or value.
  > transfer, be obliged to retransfer Digital Ownership
  Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Stephan D. Meyer, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886342

## Verify

Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust.

    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/digital-ownership.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.