What is property? Which ever way one approaches the subject, the judicial discourse is lost within the search of its justification, its origin, or even within the analysis of its very nature. It loses itself in other social sciences, such as philosophy, economics and linguistics—to the point, for that matter, where one might ask oneself if it is not simply an act of faith, that is, an idea in which one believes without feeling the necessity to examine the truth of all of its constituting elements. If we adhere to the language of property, we can see that it is modeled by metaphors. Such metaphors, that of absolute property, for example, or even that of natural property, constitute as many false representations as those upon which the law has been built. The manipulation of the meaning of the word "property," in which this imagery of law takes part, is striking in the development of intellectual property rights.