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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Not true. I.P. is not "property" - it is a time-limited monopoly, granted by government. The monopoly can be passed, yes, but it is not unlimited property, like farmland. The land existed before humans, it will exist after humans. You can't say the same about I.P.
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Irrelevant and also incorrect. You only 'own' land because we have real estate law and deeds and the artifice that says we can subdivide and own pieces of the planet surface. Ownership of farmland is not 'unlimited' as anyone who has moved, or been foreclosed on, or lost mineral rights, or been subjected to eminent domain will surely know.
Ownership of anything outside your own skin is an artificial social and legal construct and nothing more. The only difference with IP over physical property is that because it has a different nature, we created a different social and legal construct to deal with it.