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by hxa7241 5058 days ago
Land is rival: the owner needs to restrict others in order to not be restricted from accessing the land themself.

Informational goods are nonrival: any number of people can use them without obstructing anyone else's use.

So normal property laws are not 'just as arbitrary and artificial' as intellectual monopoly laws: they are grounded in actual physical limitations.