What? Car leasing is a massive market, and a large percentage of people and companies are very happy to pay to access cars and trucks without owning the title. Same goes for companies happily building on top of leasehold properties whenever it makes financial sense for them.

And as for IP, with the time limits, patents and copyrights are inherently defined to expire, but are definitely not worthless.

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CamperBob2 an hour ago | parent [-]

Valid argument. Car analogies usually break down at some point, and leasing is a definite weakness of that one.

But at the same time, hopefully you won't complain about the encroaching "You will own nothing and be happy about it" corporate ethos, if you want to restrict peoples' rights to buy and sell property of either a physical or intellectual nature.

	▲	falcor84 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Good point, but in this case I'm arguing for the exact opposite: I'm suggesting that (natural) people are the ones owning IP, and companies only lease it. I was just making the case that a lease is not "worthless".