Susan Blackmore has promoted the idea of Teme. Prof. Dawkins presented the idea of meme in his book ``The Selfish Gene.'' Blackmore extended it.
``At the February 2008 TED conference Blackmore introduced a special category of memes called temes. Temes are memes which live in technological artifacts instead of the human mind.[9]''
What I ask here is who owns them, both temes and memes?
In folk music we hear songs whose origins are forgotten, nevertheless they qualify as memes. Human minds contain then and popularize them. If the song becomes an mp3 file, as I'm understanding Blackmore, they become temes.
As it stands now, the owners of the cable, and telephone companies are getting the money accrued from payments to these services. The actual consumed products, the temes, do not belong to anybody. There may be some temes covered with copyrights, or patents. But I know that there are many orphaned temes.
Who owns these temes?
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