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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
By that; all property is "intellectual property" then. Except maybe undeveloped land.
Luck;
Ken
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I think it has more to do with two aspects of the products: the creative aspects (intellectual property) and the physical aspects (physical property).
People buy a chair for the physical aspects. The physical functionality of the chair is what people buy chairs for. The creative aspects (idea or design) behind the chair is why people buy one chair over the other, but the focal point is still the physical object. (There are exceptions, in which the chair is treated as art. Irrelevant to my point.)
People buy books for the creative aspects. The physical object of a book or eReader+eBook is just a container for the ideas stored within. The physical object of the book might influence why people buy one book over another and to some buyers can be crucially important, but the focal point is still the intellectual property that the book contains.