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Originally Posted by ApK
So is real estate, so is chattle, and, likely, so is property.
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.
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.
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So what you are saying is "we stole this fair and square, it's ours now!" Sorry, a simple refusal to address the distinctions between copyright and actual property and saying "get over it" doesn't mean that you are right, it just means that you are unwilling to engage in a honest discussion.
Barter has been around for thousands of years. Those little green pieces of paper are simply chits that are accepted by common usage. The idea of Intellectual Property as it is currently used, only dates back to the 60's and 70's (roughly the time when copyright went from being the limited time government granted monopoly to an infinite property right), though the idea of copyright and patents go back hundreds of years. We forget that until fairly recently, patents were only granted for things that could be made and copyright was 28 years.