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Nowhere in the Copyright Law does it say "the government is giving you a lease to your intellectual property."
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That's begging the question. Without copyright, there is no intellectual property. Without copyright, the author owns nothing. The Copyright clause says:
The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
That limited time exclusivity looks just like a lease. The only reason that intellectual property exists is because this granted lease can be bought and sold as if it was property.
The government wouldn't say "the government is giving you a lease to your intellectual property" because that intellectual property is a government creation. If you don't want to call it a lease, fine, but it works just like one.