Chapter 24 — Property • 24.01 — Intellectual property, Paragraph 3.1 (§24.01.03.01)

The question of whether intellectual property is natural to humans merits some explanation (as with property, see §24.00.03). Although the fact that intellectual property was invented late on in human history suggests the opposite, one must not forget that humans will process information in any way they can. Until the seventeenth century (with the Industrial Revolution leading to mass mechanical reproduction), humans processed dematerialised information in the only way they knew how, augmenting their information processing in accordance with their processing capabilities. When things changed, a new type of property was invented, one which was natural to them (on the basis of the abstraction criterion set out in §05.00.05).

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