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Well, how shall I put this? "Your" things are only yours because you live in a society where the people made a law that says so. So do I, for the record, and I wouldn't want it any other way, but it's not a force of nature.
When it comes to works of art, creative products etc, this concept does not fully apply. You never own it outright (unless you don't publish, that is, but that's probably not what you want). If you do publish you're given a certain period of exclusive use (the length of which is debatable), but even then there are immediate exceptions to this rule. You must tolerate certain private and public uses of your work, in some cases without direct compensation, and once the copyright (I use the term losely here) expires it becomes public domain.
Bottom line: this is a legal contruct, the details of which can and do vary, but, to repeat the phrase I used earlier, not a force of nature. Saying that a work (and not just an embodiment of it) belongs to the creator just makes no sense.
Yes, ideas are another thing you can't own the way you own a car. Sometimes you can patent them for a little while, but that's it.
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