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some scholars question the legitimacy and philosophical basis of such laws
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the particular form or manner in which ideas or information are expressed or manifested, and not in relation to the ideas or concepts themselves
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The shift in terminology towards "intellectual property" has coincided with a more general shift away from thinking about things like copyright and patent law as specific legal instruments designed to promote the common good and towards a conception of ideas as inviolable property granted by natural law.[8] The terminological shift coincides with the usage of pejorative terms for copyright infringement such as "piracy" and "theft".
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the "property" referred to in "intellectual property" is the rights, not the intellectual work.
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still encourages a natural rights notion rather than a recognition that the rights are purely statutory, and it only characterizes the "property" rather than eliminates the property presupposition.
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in the United States physical property laws are generally part of state law, while copyright law is in the main measure federal
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The backronyms intellectual protectionism and intellectual poverty, whose initials are also IP, have found supporters as well, especially among those who have used the backronym digital restrictions management.
