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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I'm fine with intangible assets. [...]
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You didn't happen to notice the definition for "Asset" given above? I hate to break it to you, but...
The 1925 American dictionary quoted earlier (
The New Universities Dictionary) defines "assets" as "the entire property of a trade or company of traders". The OED is similar: "by extension [from effects of a debtor]: All the property of a person or company which may be made liable for his or their debts."
That is, assets is defined in terms of property (it is a subset of property, because not all property has value that can be made liable for debts). To accept that copyright is an asset is to accept it is property.
As for claiming copyright is not a "thing", I suggest you look "thing" up for yourself (since the definition I gave earlier didn't seem to convince you). The definition is pretty much all inclusive.