ABSTRACT
Harvey M. Jacobs When we think and talk about “the site,” allowing the concept to form in our minds, we associate it with two ideas. The first is the idea that an isolatable site is owned, and that ownership is identifiable. Whether the ownership unit is a private or public entity (an individual, corporation, government, or some combination of these) is immaterial; what matters is the assumption that a legal someone has control over the site. The second idea is that the owner has a set of rights that may be freely exercised as a function of their ownership: for example, the right to keep others off the site, the right to use the site for the owner’s own enjoyment, the right to develop the site, the right to extract profit from the site, and so on.
