property rights are man made constructs.
intellectual property is a subset of property rights.
they both exist only because society deems their existence necessary.
intellectual property is a subset of property rights.
they both exist only because society deems their existence necessary.
I strongly recommend Heller & Salzman's "Mine!" [0] as a non-ideological and layperson-accessible exploration of the history and nature of property.
I don't deem the existence of intellectual "property" necessary, in fact I predict its existance will become infeasable to uphold.