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> Intellectual Property and Copyright aren't quite the same thing. The IP is the idea, whereas the copyright is the specific recipe.

No. Intellectual property is property.

One cannot "own" an idea, but one can own a copyright; copyright (along with trademark and patent) is a form of IP.



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