Copyrigts are property rights – they can be sold, inherited, leased, divided, transferred. Although Romans did not establish copyright concepts per se, the Romans did pioneer the constituent elements of intangible personal property that form the basis of copyright. To begin with, the Roman concept of res, property, encompassed all things which had economic value. The law of things includes all those rights which are capable of being evaluated in money terms. The term res (“thing”) referred to physical things, res corporales or referred to intangibles, res incorporales, as well. The Roman jurist Gaius was the first to discuss res incorporales as a distinct legal concept.
Therefore, there were grounds for concluding intellectual property contracts because these were not just theoretical considerations but regulations resulting from current needs.
I won’t waste time with some of the errors in your post; let’s just say it’s clear to me you have little understanding of this topic.
Intangible property is a creature of the law and exists only if the law says it does. Roman law recognized some intangible property, but intellectual property rights in a text was not among them.
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