AN ENTERPRISE, ALSO AN ESTATE, AND A WORK OF ART (energy, contractual and business law, intellectual property)
An obligation or a conglomerate of obligations is the key element of an enterprise. But any business also has something that disappears after the entrepreneur leaves, and as a result the company stops functioning, current contracts are terminated and new ones are not made. An entrepreneur creates publicity for his/her company, which is just like the publicity created for an artist to sell works of art, an entrepreneur aims at entrenching an exaggerated image of the company's opportunities among potential clients. An enterprise could also be viewed as an estate: after buying it a businessman acquires a certain standing, status, a conglomerate of rights and liabilities that exist around the company or in connection with it, including the rights and liabilities on the previously concluded collective contract and individual labor contracts.