“Intellectual property”, by which you don’t mean getting the credit, nor having your authorship recognized, etc… Granting a monopoly over an idea is just that: an state grant of judicial action against other people who only use their property as they see fit and do the best that humans can do: imitate and adapt others’ ideas. Even the most genial, original ideas are just that, reshuffling something that already exists in a different way.

When will we recognize it for what it is? It’s not property. It negates other people’s freedom. It’s a monopoly granted for purely utilitarian reasons, which are then negated when the original period is extended over and over. It’s a form of government coercion on behalf of a private party for the “greater good” of innovation, that in the end kills innovation, freedom and all pretense that government acts for the public good.