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Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

Esther Dyson
Land, Intellectual, Needs
"Intellectual Value" by Esther Dyson, www.wired.com. July 1, 1995.
Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.