[durasell]

Movies simply don't seem like "property" to them. That's not a moral failing or a particularly bad intellectual failing. It's simply a failing to understand how an abstract thing can be "property."

[GatorGirl]

Movies are not abstract, they are concrete. The same as books. The ideas might be abstract, ephemeral, whatever, but the product--book, movie, screenplay, painting, whatever, is concrete.

That is where intellectual property rights come from. You could think, word for word, the content of a book, but you don't own the copyright unless you write those words down.