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Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage

The distorting and confusing term did not become common by accident.

The term “intellectual property” is at best a catch-all to lump together disparate laws. Nonlawyers who hear one term applied to these various laws tend to assume they are based on a common principle and function similarly.

Nothing could be further from the case. These laws originated separately, evolved differently, cover different activities, have different rules, and raise different public policy issues.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html