Ownership in any context is an illusion - even your own life. Anyone with momentary power over you, (which is to say, the ability to take your life from you without your consent,) is effectively the owner of your life for as long as their discretion is actionable. Given that almost anyone can take the life of almost anyone around them, with the aid of easily acquired means and a motive to do so, it might be claimed that no one has secure possession of their own life at any time. Likewise, we can extend this argument to any other commodity, real or abstract, that someone might want to single out.
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