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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Intellectual property is a phrase that was coined by a lawyer[....]
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So is real estate, so is chattle, and, likely, so is property.
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to help convince the jury that his client's idea was property that belonged to him.
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Just like "deeds" are used to give that impression about places on the Earth.
All "property ownership" is an artificial construct of our society. There is an argument to made that aside from our bodies, our ideas and thoughts are the only things that we CAN truly own.
IP is no different and every bit as valid as the made-up notion that passing someone little slips of green paper creates a transfer of property ownership when you buy a thing in store.
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Words matter, because that is what frames the debate.
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Misframes it in this case. Use words to convey meaning. Don't try to impose meaning that isn't there by intentionally picking a wrong word, or to try to dismiss meaning that is there by refusing to use the right word.
You do that as rhetoric to persuade, not as the foundation for your argument.
Our society calls it intellectual property and has laws concerning it.
It is so.
Get over it.