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Originally Posted by gmw
I think we've had this discussion before  . Property has a specific meaning (a thing or things in owned) in legal and commercial circumstances. Non-tangible "rights" of many sorts have been treated as property (traded, subleased, used as collateral) for centuries before IP. Defining IP as having rights makes it property, no conspiracy required, just centuries of experience. |
The discussion I responded to was not about
Property rights in general.
IP = Intellectual Property
PP =Physical property.
Yes both are property.
The argument was that IP (
Intellectual property) rights should be treated the same as PP (
Physical property) rights.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Intellectual property rights should be treated in the same manner as physical property rights.
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It wasn't me who initially used
physical objects such as money, houses, restaurants, farm land, the list goes on, to make this point.
To address that argument it is necessary to address whether
Intellectual property is the same as
Physical property.
Let's go with that shall we......
Disregarding "copyright", which is an added set of laws pertaining to what can and can not be done with IP, lets look at
Physical Property law.
The law states I can not steal your house from you. You have the
physical property right to own that house, pass it down to whoever you like, etc. However, the law has nothing to say about copying your
physical property and I can do so to my hearts content. I can exactly duplicate your house and make it my own. I can build multiple exact copies and sell them to anyone I like.
The only thing stopping me is "copyright" law. Nothing in
physical property rights law prevents me from doing the above.
So lets treat
intellectual property the same as
physical property. Lets do away with copyright law and put it all under
physical property law.
Now I can not steal the
intellectual property that makes up the Harry Potter books from JK Rowling, and she can pass that down to whomever she likes but I can legally copy the Harry Potter books and sell as many copies as I like.
Are we all happy?