And copying is not theft. Despite intellectual properganda to the contrary.
Update: See Who are You Calling a Pirate?: Shaping Public Discourse in the Intellectual Property Debates, by Christina Mulligan and Brian Patrick Quinn.
Note: The SSRN link is bad at present; I have posted it here with Mulligan’s permission.
So, Stop calling patent and copyright “property”; stop calling copying “theft” and “piracy”. Just. Stop. It.
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