The shift in focus away from a specific dollar figure follows a change in the national education debate framed by leaders such as President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Fugitive resources tend to shift toward governance rules, Smith said, because it's so hard to figure out the exact boundaries of the "property" and what it's worth.
As we shift from the web 2.0 era into the age of curation, we must figure out what to do with this newfound appreciation of quality over quantity when it comes to our human-generated data.