Chapter 24 — Property • 24.01 — Intellectual property, Paragraph 1.1 (§24.01.01.01)

Although property in the analogue world has been exercised since the beginning of time, the concept of intellectual property was invented only relatively recently in human history, in the seventeenth century. It reproduced, to the greatest extent possible, what was already known of the traditional notion of property. Because it was created by humans, intellectual property was made to resemble what humans were already familiar with (a remark that, as can be seen, is also valid for the digital world).

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