• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    13 天前

    I think IP law shouldn’t exist, because it assumes that ideas can be owned and leads to predictably absurd results.

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      11 天前

      can they though? Isn’t the purpose of copyright mainly to manage industries e.g. avoid that one actor passes off their work as someone else’s? And they need to have a expiration date. That’s how I understood it. I can see how it can turn in to a cluster fire easy though, you’re right