Forms of “ownership” are human created incentives towards particular behaviors. Land ownership incentivizes investment and reduces territorial violence. Child c

Forms of “ownership” are human created incentives towards particular behaviors. Land ownership incentivizes investment and reduces territorial violence. Child custody is a form of ownership that promotes family stability. The purpose of intellectual ownership in the US is explicitly to “promote the Useful Arts.” There is not supposed to be any theoretical justification for it, only empirical.