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If the logic of copyright/trademark/IP law applied to everything, what's the most peculiar possible implication you can think of for it? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 months ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Was thinking of this after a conversation I had on a thread about dreams. Someone joked “I was dreaming of the events of The Matrix, then I was woken up by someone worried my dream was infringing the Wachowski’s copyrights”, and it turned into a whole train of thought in my mind, like violating IP law because you stole fire from Zeus which was his intellectual property.

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[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Parents have to pay a fee for the firstname they give their kids. Popular firstnames cost more, gross ones cost less.

The kids themselves have to pay again for it monthly, their whole live long.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This might be the only valid reason to ever name a kid "Jayrahmyie"

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now everyone is going for this and they're gonna charge more WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

[–] androogee@midwest.social 0 points 2 months ago

Made themself a mint, that's what.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Nah it should be like fetishes, the more obscure the more expensive. But you can get John or Mark for free.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So, who owns the name?

[–] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Some squatter who bought the rights to it for two twigs and a raspberry back when they were first selling off name rights 200,000 years ago