#15 - Concept Reference, Must Be True

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (A).

Answer choice (A): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[miriamson07]

Hi,

I interpreted the question stem incorrectly. I thought that "the theory that copyright and other intellectual property rights can be construed as logical extensions of the right to own concrete, tangible objects" would necessarily mean that the theory is valid. Thus, I chose the answer that I thought described what the author thinks needs to be true for the theory to be valid. (It turns out that even with my incorrect interpretation, the answer I chose wouldn't hold because I read the answer choice incorrectly, but that is besides the point).

Now, I'm guessing that it was a stretch to say that the above quoted part necessarily means that the theory is valid. But, it still makes sense to me that it should necessarily mean the theory is valid. After all, if a theory is a logical extension of an existing right, wouldn't that mean that the theory is valid?

Please help me see how I'm thinking about this incorrectly. Thank you!

[Dana D]

Hey Miriam,

We don't actually need to determine if the theory is valid for this question, we're just asked to restate what the passage itself says. Here, the question is referring to lines (5) to just before line (10). The passage explicitly states that this view depends on the assumption that every copyright work can be manifested in a physical form.

So we don't need to figure out if that is possible, or if this view point is valid, we just need to be able to identify the specific reference in the passage and the answer choice that best matches it, which here is answer choice (A).

hope that helps!