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Originally Posted by arjaybe
Another failed attempt to conflate rights with property. The fact that the example used to illustrate it was the creation (painting, manuscript) and not the copyright shows its weakness. The right has some property-like attributes, but that is all. Trying to equate rights with property will lead to ridiculous results. My right to vote is property. My right to turn right on a red light is property, etc.
rjb
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Most property, under law, is indeed a set of rights, some of which you can assign, permanently or temporarily, to others. Even if you "own" a block of land, all that really means, under law, is a set of rights - things you can and cannot do with that property. You can rent that block of land for a period of time, during which you assign certain rights to the tenants, removing some of your own rights for that period, in compensation for which you receive money. Another example are mineral rights that can be, and often are, held as a separate property from ostensible ownership of the surface estate.