Well this is all very humbling. I'm a mostly "managed language" weenie at the moment, but I swear I've read the phrase "ownership semantics" in reference to something in this neck of the C++ woods. Rust is shaping up to pass the Alan Perlis test quite handily as a language worth studying.
Yes, see, in C++, you still need to think about ownership, the compiler just can't help you out. One way of thinking about Rust is "C++, but the compiler understands ownership and memory lifetime."