• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    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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      4 days ago

      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