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Originally Posted by ApK
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.
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The difference beween IP and real property is that real property can only be occupied by one person at a time (plz to adjust metaphor according to physics involved.)
No matter what social/legal boundaries we devise, two people can't (comfortably) occupy a chair at the same time. Six people certainly can't.
However, a poem or story or picture or even entire novel, can comfortably be shared amongst a hundred people, all of whom keep a complete and functional copy in their memories.
The memory of a chair doesn't help you sit comfortably in front of the keyboard. However, the memory of a poem works just as the original for reciting to your child to get them to sleep.