The practice of the poor being able to take unharvested crops for themselves goes back to the old testament. It was an early form of social weldare.
It's common to see people harvest blackberries, mushrooms, chestnuts.
Sustainable Ballard organizes gleanings from the local public market. Here's one of their projects. http://www.sustainableballard.org/food-gleaning/ I hope this practice is widespread.
My city has a couple groups that will come and harvest your trees. https://www.cityfruit.org/great-seattle-fruit-harvest
Find food near you. https://fallingfruit.org http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/04/23/178603623/wan...
I was once told that one of the bluesky uses cases for Google Maps was to enable someone to publish urban food sources. That person had a map online for while, much like falling fruit above, but I can't quickly refind that URL.
Urban food gathering always reminds me of Octavia Bulter's "The Parable of the Sower", where the protaganist is very resourceful. (A fate I hope we manage to avoid.) http://octaviabutler.org/2017/03/parable-of-the-sower-new-ed...
Meaning - freely available fruits of knowledge can be derived from that which - its basically a pun.
The fact that we lost the meta-knowledge around etymology is a sad thing...
There is a podcast by an etymology guy that has amazing insights to words - but, in my limited experience listening to him, lacks some meta meaning -- in that glean means to to take free fruit, glean means to see deeper info, glean means to harvest deeper info from the free info given, knowledge is thought of as fruit...
I was wrong -- it is known:
>>>glean (v.) Look up glean at Dictionary.com early 14c., "to gather by acquisition, scrape together," especially grains left in the field after harvesting, but the earliest use in English is figurative, from Old French glener "to glean" (14c., Modern French glaner) "to glean," from Late Latin glennare "make a collection," of unknown origin. Perhaps from Gaulish (compare Old Irish do-glinn "he collects, gathers," Celtic glan "clean, pure"). Figurative sense was earlier in English than the literal one of "gather grain left by the reapers" (late 14c.). Related: Gleaned; gleaning.
so.... to collect (information) from....
I do not google and go directly over to complain about lack of the relevant hyperlink.
Now, to my surprise there are quite a few linguistic podcasts.
This comment is a fine Proustian madeleine, if I may :)
See http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/961516/jewish/...
It applies to grain harvest and fruit trees and is taken very seriously here in Israel.
https://torahlive.com/articles/halacha-teachers-articles/201...
The example of the copied mishna is ironic, because the plaintiff didn't write the selected parts, neither.
The comparison of IP to fish is a huge stretch. Illegal Encroachment is one thing but comparing people to fish is another. Still, I derived a new to me interpretation of intangible (as in not yet caught fish [and thus possibly not going to be caught either])
While the last example is rather topical, it contains no value judgement and still concernes tangible matters. What do the scholars have to say about reasoning by analogy?
Sure, the argument of upfront investment entitling to its fruit is compelling, but it's a slippery sloap init? Its from a time when selling people was a thing. I wouldn't give it too much thought. The article is very one sided and holier than thou in this regard for lack of a better word. (edit: forgive my ignorance, if the slave example is ill conceived)