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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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Why are you so upset at the idea that words were given meaning by someone who needed to coin a name for a particular concept??? Would you rather we not used any kind of words at all, because some random Joe Shmoe on the internet claims you aren't allowed to use what is in his/her
arbitrary opinion the wrong word?
You seem to be quite good at
rhetoric
yourself. (Since you seem to believe doing so is evil...)
Land property has long been accepted as something you can own, by virtue of the fact that you can stand on it and protect it, and the fact that once taken by another you no longer have your land anymore. It is a natural form of property, and has been accepted as such since the beginning of time.
Intellectual property is nothing but thoughts, and can be copied an unlimited number of times
without taking anything away from the original owner. It is reasonable to say that it is not really property in the accepted, traditional sense. And historically speaking, it was accepted that you could not own an idea. Or a thought. (You can refuse to speak of "it", but that doesn't mean that you own "it", just that no one else thought of "it". If they did think of "it", would you say they stole it from you?)
The fact that intellectual property exists is an artificial construct of society. Land property is NOT an artificial construct of society. (It has been around since before society, in fact.
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Property ownership is not necessarily defined by the little pieces of paper tokens which we use as expressions of intent.