On The Constitutional Reasons Behind Copyright And Patents
Patents, Copyrights And Trademarks, Oh My!
If Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What Is It?
I liked Levine and Bolrin's Intellectual Monopoly substitute term for IP. It better reflect what "intellectual property" is about - a monopoly to exploit a "product" of someone's intellect, granted by a government explicitly , for example patents, or implicitly (copyright).