Alessandro Rubini rubini@gnu.org schrieb/wrote:
"intellectual property" is the term information owners use to spread the idea that owning information is a natural thing just like private property...
Interestingly, this way of thinking came from the French Revolution and is the basis for Continental Europe's "right of authorship" system, not for the Common Law copyright system.
Acutally, the only "intellectual property" is Continental Europe's copyright (and maybe patents as a borderline case); everything else referred to as IP such as trademarks, models, topographies, ... and Common Law copyright is just "commercial property" or even better "commercial investment protection".
Claus