Noun
One who appropriates.
A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.
Source: Webster's dictionaryCreation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. Lawrence Lessig
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