"My lawyer would beg to differ with you." The constitution doesn't agree with your lawyer. To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for

"My lawyer would beg to differ with you." The constitution doesn't agree with your lawyer. To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. That established copyright. It doesn't say anything -- direct or implied -- about "property". And if you read the letters of Jefferson, you can see that the idea that an intangible item cannot be treated as property was very much on the founding fathers' minds.