• Tak@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I always considered it like thought property, not exactly tangible and the closest you could do is copy it.

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      11 months ago

      The idea that it shares the same features as anything else we consider “property” is the problem, so why call it property? The only thing that one can “own” in this regime is the license itself, and that doesn’t go away just because someone violates its terms.

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        11 months ago

        I mean. Literally, literally means figuratively now. People look at DVDs and say they’re not a digital copy when they are written digitally. Words are fluid and contextual so to throw out half a phrase is to throw out the ability to understand it.

        Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things,[1] and also refers to the valuable things themselves. -Property Wiki

        An intellectual property would then logically follow it is a valuable thing or idea that is then legally controlled.