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It's such a bizarre argument I'm not even sure how they logically got there. A bed and a house are physical things. A song is an idea. We literally call it "int

• kmeisthax 4y ago
  The argument isn't that we should start allowing people to make fair use of your bed, the argument is that we shouldn't use the phrase "intellectual property", because no other property right is this permissive with unauthorized use and exploitation. The rhetorical technique Stephan is using is reductio ad absurdum, or "reducing to the absurd."
  • lewhoo 4y ago
    Except maybe public property which is arguably even more permissive ?
    • Dylan16807 4y ago
      That's because "property" normally implies private property, so adding the word "public" inverts it. It's not merely another category of "property". Public IP is called the public domain, and is the most permissive of all.
      • lewhoo 4y ago
        I'm not so sure about that. Public property is a category of property assigned typically to a defined community. For example, citizens of Russia don't have the rights to use at least some of the public property means of USA and so on.