The reason why the long-term property lease analogy is accurate is because in most jurisdictions copyrights lapse after a stipulated period. That is inspite of

The reason why the long-term property lease analogy is accurate is because in most jurisdictions copyrights lapse after a stipulated period. That is inspite of corporations like Disney that have used copyright law to their benefit to extend the lifetime of their IP. Taking your point about "free computing", I wonder why we haven't had the equivalent of open source software and the success we have seen over the last few decades hasn't spawned open content movement where we could get great movies, music, books etc., Sure, there are pockets of availability that is an exception, but not the kind of mainstream success that we have seen with open source software.