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Intellectual property is an umbrella term for copyright, patents, and trademarks used to make it sound like "property" is "stolen" when licensing agreements are violated.
I always considered it like thought property, not exactly tangible and the closest you could do is copy it.
The idea that it shares the same features as anything else we consider "property" is the problem, so why call it property? The only thing that one can "own" in this regime is the license itself, and that doesn't go away just because someone violates its terms.
I mean. Literally, literally means figuratively now. People look at DVDs and say they're not a digital copy when they are written digitally. Words are fluid and contextual so to throw out half a phrase is to throw out the ability to understand it.
An intellectual property would then logically follow it is a valuable thing or idea that is then legally controlled.