 A second reply is that rights of all sorts restrict what individuals can do with their bodies and property. Restricting individual liberty is no more a feature of intellectual property than of other sorts of rights. Physical property rights to a car, for example, prohibit all of humanity from swinging a bat and damaging the car in question. Even in the privacy of your own home it is not legally permissible to punch someone in the face, destroy a visitor’s personal property, or engage in risky activities that threaten one’s neighbors. 