Mr. Zimmer, I want to thank you for checking on me, in terms of my confidence to respond but the reason I'm saying I don't know is because of what I know. I'm saying this in a professional capacity of knowing that the people who tell me they know what to do right now are the ones that I run from the fastest—honestly.
I want that to be a thing everyone hears me say. I've worked a lot with this and there are a lot of unknowns. That's why I don't want to say I have the answers. I know it's frustrating that we're not sure, but it's because we need to get into more of this stuff. I would just posit that part of the problem is that, when I talk to economists, they have one language, and when I talk to lawyers, they have another language. We need to be working together more on all of these issues, to get us to the next level.
In terms of the idea of who owns my data, I've been in some interesting conversations about this. One helpful thing I heard was that data is a representation of a fact. No one owns facts. Sometimes it's about the quality of the capture of a fact, and then maybe you can go and say that you've not captured my fact correctly. This is difficult. I would point to Teresa Scassa, who has written a paper recently about data ownership, which gets into the reasons why this question is difficult.
It's the nature of data that it's not just one, and not finite in its existence. It is challenging in what it is. I think we're still trying to figure all of that out, and the different relationships between what we consider our data and others who are using it.