>Rights can exist without them having to be recognized. >They can't be taken away, just infringed against. Property rights - it is government license to you fo

>Rights can exist without them having to be recognized. >They can't be taken away, just infringed against. Property rights - it is government license to you for the exclusive (subject to zoning and other laws/rules) use for a specific parcel of land. That infringes upon all Earth's creatures' (humans including) rights for that specific parcel of land. The same way IP rights - government grants you the license for the exclusive (subject to various laws/rules) use for an idea, sound, symbol... That infringes upon all Earth's creatures' (humans including) right for that idea, sound, symbol... It is like in logic/mathematics - the same basic rules create the same structure. The nature of individual objects doesn't matter. The IP space is undergoing the same parcelization, zoning, fencing, etc... (RIAA as a crazy city council) Actually, so far we've seen only beginning of this process ... >Also, the difference between IP as a 'right' and as a 'privilege' consists in the difficulty of arranging for a system of IPs in a world without a monopolistic enforcer (or 'privilege granter'). This is what World Wars are for - solving such problems in the specific areas of rights, specifically real property rights, human rights, etc...