> Owning and asserting a copyright does not make you a monopolist [...] All property rights are monopolies. Copyright is not a property right, it is exactly a

> Owning and asserting a copyright does not make you a monopolist [...] All property rights are monopolies. Copyright is not a property right, it is exactly a state-granted monopoly privilege, instituted on ostensibly utilitarian grounds. See http://stpeter.im/writings/essays/publicdomain.html http://stpeter.im/writings/essays/publicdomain.html Cory Doctorow has elsewhere explained how IP used to be discussed in terms of a "creative monopoly" until the 1970s when the copyright industry began actively promoting the "intellectual property" moniker. The reason? It's a lot easier to go hat in hand to Congress to ask them to protect your "property rights" than to petition them to further extend your monopoly privileges. In much the same way, they'd like to now redefine copying as "theft". "You wouldn't steal a car." Don't fall for it.