All of these, including such pivotal creations as the Bible, the Koran, and the hundreds of Sutras were created in a world without intellectual property. Once again, history proves this to be false. Shakespeare, Plato, Confucius, Hero, Chaucer, Handel, and many others of the finest names in world literature, music, art, and invention worked in an environment free of intellectual property restrictions. To take away intellectual property rights is to deny creators the right to profit from their labors. In fact, this is not true.
Intellectual property follows directly from the notion of physical property.
Physical property rights are derived from the basic fact that a physical object can't be in two places at once. Information, however, differs from physical property in a number of ways, one of which being that it can be in many places at the same time. By removing the myths and misconceptions which surround intellectual property, we can make better decisions as to its proper status in our society.