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Originally Posted by gmw
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.
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You are just trying to play internet gotcha games right now and totally ignoring my point.
The specific word property is laden with meaning for most people. It's a much more important word than asset in most people's minds. Property is something that I own and can't be taken away from me, asset is something that is of worth. Words as a rhetorical device are important. That is a big reason that, for example, why what blacks in the US prefer to be called has changed a number of times over the years. Negro, Afro-american, Black, African-american, all mean the same thing but the underlying emotional context and the subconscious assumptions behind the word is different.