propertization

Noun

 * 1) The process of coming to treat something as if it were property under the law
 * 2) * 2004, Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jeffrey Paul, Freedom of Speech (volume 21, part 2, page 107)
 * Building on Section II's perspective on how property rights function and why we have them in the tangible world, Section III both defends propertization of intangible works in digital form and offers rebuttals to some of the most frequently propounded objections to it.