Talk:Intellectual property infringement
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There is no such thing as "intellectual property"
[edit]There are several types of intellectual property rights, such as copyrights, patents, trademarks, industrial designs, and trade secrets.
None of these are "intellectual property rights", because "intellectual property" is a term used to group together multiple different, separate, unrelated laws, including the ones listed here. Their only similarities are that they deal with intangible concepts and ideas. Also note the word "intangible" here – something that is intangible cannot be "property", but business interests would like you to perceive that the ideas and concepts they hold are "property" so that you will consider any copying of it to be "theft". If you talk about "intellectual property", you are talking about something that does not exist. If Wikipedia treats it as if it does exist, that is agreeing with an opinion, which is a violation of the neutral point of view policy. WP:ASSERT states: "Assert facts, not opinions".
Please see this essay for more details: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html. DesertPipeline (talk) 12:18, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
- Note to the reader: This discussion is related to the following discussions: Talk:Patent#Use of "intellectual property" in lead, Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Words to watch#Other loaded words, and Wikipedia talk:Loaded words and terms on Wikipedia. --Edcolins (talk) 20:02, 12 April 2021 (UTC)