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Intellectual property law isn't nonsense. It evolved over hundreds of years (and continues to do so) from other areas of property law in the common law system.
by bhousel 14y ago
Intellectual property law isn't nonsense. It evolved over hundreds of years (and continues to do so) from other areas of property law in the common law system.
- baddox 14y agoThose two things are not mutually exclusive.
- greyfade 14y agoIt did not evolve from property law. It evolved from monopolies granted by kings, and the desire to control who could publish and how extensively. So-misnamed "intellectual property" never had anything to do with property laws until very recently.