InformationSpace

Informal speaking: equally simple, reliable, durable and doubtless space for communication over distance and time as paper, ink and Gutenberg technology.

The information space is the space, where all information is stored no matter of the physical location where it appear to be presented.

To illustrate a little more: if there was any information in a brain, that part of the brain, where the information is actually stored, is part of the information space. The same applies to transscripts and recordings of speech, again that part of the media, which actually stores the information, is part of the information space. So we better conclude the information space must a conceptual (often called virtual) space.

The presentation of the information, as it can be stored on all sorts of media, is a projection of the information space onto the media filtered by some some encoding function.

Reiterating the above in other words: there is no such thing like copying in the information space. All copies are projections of the same information. Example: If I heared a song today and sang it tomorrow morning in the bathroom, I would still be the same song. Many copies just make the information stronger, not more.

See also HomesteadingInTheNoosphere and an interesting ruling of an american court as reported by The New York Times and commented by slashdot

BTW:Confusion about that little difference between data (an encoded projection from the information space into values from other spaces) and information has lead to many unfortune situations in history where people fought data when they tried to fight information. I'd like to remind here to too many burned books, killed singers, cencorship, DeCSS etc.