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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Because in this age of sound-bytes, a long winded (even if precise) label gets ignored and the a short tag replaces it. So which short tag do you want to use? Property, will all the open-endedness of ownership implied, or lease, with the inherent concept of expiration imbedded in the tag. If everybody started talking about intellectual leases instead of intellectual property, the stretching of copyright for the sole benefit of the copyright holder would show up as the land grab it is, to the common man...
Words matter....
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It's not a land grab. People have a right to get paid for their work. You take that away and people stop working.
Carl