xtended to cover the more abstract notion of intellectual property, thus giving an individual or company the exclusive legal right to manufacture a certain musical recording, to sell a piece of software, or to use the words "Enjoy Coke" in a commercial context, since what is owned in these cases is intellectual property - information, binary data, or an advertising slogan.
             But does it make sense to extend the concept of ownership to these things? In all cases of ownership, or holding the patent to an invention, the real thing being owned is the right to make use of certain information for profit. I could make and sell South Park T-shirts, but since I haven't gotten permission from its owners, I'm breaking copyright law. I could steal someone's design for a carburetor and produce them myself, but we generally agree that the inventor's rights are being infringed upon, since I haven't arrived at that carburetor design by any effort of my own. Stealing, we say, is wrong. The question is, what is stealing?
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