[Commons-Law] Did You Say "Intellectual Property"? It's a Seductive Mirage

[Patrice Riemens]

Good that RMS fires a clear and massive broadside against the 'IP'
misnommer. For years now I have been purosefully putting the term between 
brackets myself.  
I do not agree, however, that you should not call IP by any other name,
since the monster needs to be tagged. For that I have always been an
advocate of Ronald Coase's term "proprietary knowledge" to describe those 
intangibles firms (or other 'rights'holder) claim ownership on (based on 
whatever merit) and want to 'protect' and control. But there seem to be 
many difficulties with that term, and quite some opposition to it was 
raised when I broached it on nettime a few years ago (stupid and stubborn 
as I am, I can't remeber the argument). I wonder what people on this list 
think...
cheers, patrizio & Diiiinoooos!