Roger,
As always, you argue intelligently, but I hope your last paragraph isn't meant to characterize what I've said. Maybe you're referring to posts by others.
Yes, there are reasons ownership of intellectual property is different than ownership of physical things, but it doesn't follow that its term must be limited. We limit it, I think, in the belief that this benefits the public, and it seems reasonable to ask in a philosophical conversation whether the public might benefit from putting a similar term on other forms of ownership.
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