Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual property is property that is granted to you instantly when you come up with an idea. When you write a paper, a blog or anything of that sort you it is instanly considered Intellectual property. Jammie Thomas in Minnesota is being tried for sharing music. She is the first of 26,000 similar cases and could potentially be sued up to 1.2 million dollars. She won't back down and didn't settle with a smaller price, she is not refusing to fight this case and her arguement is whether the companies own the music at all.