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> However, this kind of thinking would then require one to accept that property, like that car parked in the house, is property owned by the state and given as an privilege to someone they define as an owner.

This is a failure of logic. Even in the absense of a government, you would own your car--but you would have to personally defend that ownership at all times. The privilege that the state grants is security in your ownership: external protection from uncompensated use or taking. This is how intellectual property rights are analogous to other property rights. The government does not create or own the content; what they grant is protection from uncompensated use or taking of the content.




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