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-IntellectualProperty is an oxymoron: the legal concept asserting that ideas can be owned. Be aware that there is no actual IntellectualProperty law; the concept is manifested in various distinct ways such as CopyRight and [Patent] laws. The term IntellectualProperty is often abused by MarkeTroid~s to conflate issues spanning multiple kinds of IntellectualProperty law in order to muddle over all-important details. [SCO]'s [Linux] [FUD] was a particularly egregious example of the practice. The [FSF] [dislike the term | http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty] for this reason and suggest focussing on the individual aspects of law such as CopyRight and [Patent]s instead.
+IntellectualProperty is an oxymoron: the legal concept asserting that ideas can be owned. Be aware that there is no actual IntellectualProperty law; the concept is manifested in various distinct ways such as CopyRight and [Patent] laws. The term IntellectualProperty is often abused by MarkeTroid~s to conflate issues spanning multiple kinds of IntellectualProperty law in order to muddle over all-important details. [SCO]'s [Linux] [FUD] was a particularly egregious example of the practice. The [FSF] [dislike the term for this reason | http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml] and list it as [one of the words to avoid
| http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty] for this reason and suggest focussing on the individual aspects of law such as CopyRight and [Patent]s instead.
The [World Intellectual Property Organisation | http://www.wipo.org] defined the term as the range of property rights accorded for the protection of creations of the mind, including
* Literary, artistic and scientific works;
