intellectual property question

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Fri May 18 18:09:31 PDT 2001


Mchael Perelmen wrote:


> >When did the term, intellectual property, first appear?
========== When did the words "intellectual" and "property" first appear? It seems the term usufruct, which is closely related to property and was used by Jefferson and Marx, amongst others, intimated of the "primitive communism" that Marx spoke of and is closely related to ideas of "trusts" and "trusteeship"--also fascinating and mysterious concepts. Doing some serious etymology would be of great help regarding the future of issues related to ownership and inequality........

Ian



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