On 6 Sep, 00:46, Michael Press pacbell.net> wrote:

Because the notion of intellectual property makes sense only within
the contemporary socio-economic system, based on social automization
and private property. In ancient societies, all belonged to God, or to
the King, or to some combination/variation of these notions. And the
transition from the "ancient" model (which we still can see in some
traditional societies of today) based on unifying spiritual principles
(an organic point of view), to the "modern" model based on the
contrary on autonomization and everybody on his own, corresponds in
fact to the transition from the medioeval society to the mercantil
society.

-LV