Intellectual property

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Intellectual property is the capitalistic idea that "things" like ideas, knowledge and cultural works are the property of somebody - although they usually build on a whole tradition/frame of other ideas and knowledge. This concept leads to the idea that knowledge may be stolen by copying and sharing it - although it grows and gains from the sharing and nobody loses it.