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I don't think you can own a concept in the same way that you can own a car, iphone or plot of land. They're in fundamentally different categories. Ownership o

• coldtea 13y ago
  >Ownership of things and land is a perfectly legitimate thing. It might be legitimate (or not), but that's another issue -- it still is "legal fiction", that is, there is no "natural law" that justifies people owning a piece of land or anything else for that matter. It's just something we, as society accept as valid (and not even all societies: there are tribal societies where land belongs to all, for example, or societies where land belongs to the crown). In the same sense, ownership of concepts is something that a society can accept as valid (or not). In any case, our society seems to accept the notion just fine, seeing that copying some kind of concepts without permission can land you a hefty fine.