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Personality theory describing property as an expression of itself lies in continental philosophy, not in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence. It is especially developed by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. According to his personality theory an idea belongs to its creator because the idea is a manifestation of the creator's personality or itself. Hegel stresses that one cannot alinate or surrender any universal element of one's self; therefore, slavery is not allowed because by "alienating the whole of my time, as crystallized in my work, I would be making into another's property the substance of my being, my universal activity naad actuality, my personality." For Hegel, intellectual property is a capital asset which can be understood as property which has a greater tendency to permanence and a greater ability than other property to give its own economic security. The article deals with which meaning for Hegel intellectual property has, and which kind of problems his theory includes, especially in the assignment of intellectual property as to his personality theory.