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)

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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 20 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 points 11 hours ago

So, who owns the name?

[-] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours 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

[-] LouNeko@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

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

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] androogee@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

Made themself a mint, that's what.

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