Three questions on property and the commons

May I invite you readers to respond to these 3 interesting questions, posed by Paolo Dimaio of p2paid.org ?

“How do individuals claim ownership of something in the first place? What gives anyone the right to own something? Are there limits to what can be owned, for how much and for how long, and why? Some ownership can be purchased, if and when something is on a market

What I d like to focus is: how does something common become common?
did it ever belong to anyone in the first place? was it donated? was it generated with common efforts, therefore is common by default, or was it generated with individual effort for the benefit of the public, with no claim of ownership?
What we need to delimit are the boundaries of private property and common property, and how an individual relates to one, or to both of the above ownership modes”

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