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Latest comment: 6 months ago3 comments3 people in discussion
Copyright is not property. Copyright is a monopoly right that is expressly limited in time, whereas property is permanent. Violating copyright is violating a monopoly concession, a business offense; whereas violating someone's property right is theft, a very serious crime. The reason why the term "intellectual property" came to be common in the late 1900s is because publishers want copyright to become permanent too, and its violators to be criminally prosecuted for theft. Wikipedia should be wary of helping that attempt at "legislation by lexicon". Jorge Stolfi (talk) 17:02, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Julian in LA This topic edges towards WP:NOTFORUM because IP is clearly the common-use term as of now, and that's not going to change on Wikipedia. However, formally, they were right that copyright is not a form of property; it is a quasi-property. They were also right that "IP" was not widely used until the 1990s, in connection to advocacy efforts like the CTEA. lethargilistic (talk) 19:12, 4 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
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change "In many modern day publications the terms copyright and authors' rights are being mixed, or used as translations, but in a juridical sense the legal concepts do essentially differ." to "In many modern-day publications the terms copyright and authors' rights are being mixed, or used as translations, but in a juridical sense the legal concepts do essentially differ." Ctheorya (talk) 00:35, 24 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Can someone find out a brief way to explain the u.s originality of copyright? Like “In the U.S it went a different route. The U.S Supreme Court ruled that there must be a spark of creativity and independently created. It would be note worthy as the U.S is the only country that went that way.WikiGrower1 (talk) 23:34, 8 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
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The DOI / ISBN for "Understanding Copyright and Related Rights" currently lead to a cyrillic version of the report. The English variant might be more suitable? This is currently ref. no. 45.
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Done Thank you for catching this! :) Thebiguglyalien (talk) 02:16, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
Not done: I believe you have posted this at the wrong talk page. The text you want to change does not appear in the article. Day Creature (talk) 17:32, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want made. Please detail the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Umby 🌕🐶 (talk) 23:58, 9 February 2026 (UTC)