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.
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.
Nah it should be like fetishes, the more obscure the more expensive. But you can get John or Mark for free.
This might be the only valid reason to ever name a kid “Jayrahmyie”
Now everyone is going for this and they’re gonna charge more WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
Made themself a mint, that’s what.
Lineages could claim copyright of children and their works as derivative. Entire families could claim copyright of their descendants and all works related. Each new generation resets the timer on expiration if the copyright expirations still apply.
Royalties every time you use a line from a Disney musical in spoken conversation
Don’t give them any ideas
Rest assured that they’ve already had that idea a dozen times already, and if they thought they could make it stick, they would have done so by now.
Let it go
Memes taken down and replies deleted in conversations because they contain copyrighted text and images. Lyrics censored in online conversation. All video containing any image with a logo protected by trademark, or characters protected by international copyright, even when on T shirts and signs being taken down.
Sneezing and breathing in different ways like hyperventilation.
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I actually think this backfires on most of you. Copyright law makes everything public domain after a period of time, Johnny Fires kids will be able to trade for all the first professionals in the world. But Life +70 years after currency is invented, anyone can print cash and trade falls apart and services and materials are the only thing if value. Copyright laws broken :shrug:
LOL copyright law isn’t the only law that says you can’t print your own money
Damn, if only someone had asked a hypothetical question wherein copyright law controls everything.
Oh well, that’ll never happen.
Good thing you were here to rectify such a foolish mistake.
Discovery of oxygen.
Stop breathing my proprietary gas!
My time zones! Not yours!
My special ï makes all i’s mine or I’ll sue you into bankrupt poverty.
I own slurred accent (n + 1) and anyone speaking in said accent must cease and desist
Didn’t Nestle want to do this with water?
Ownership of specific light spectrums would be fucked up
They do it with radio spectrums.
They literally auction that shit off.
I think Anish Kapoor owns Vantablack if that counts. Technically he probably just owns the right to the paint
As much as I dislike Kapoor, technically Vantablack isn’t a pigment or regular paint by any means. From my understanding it is actually carbon nano tubes with who knows what else mixed in it and I believe it’s actually very dangerous to be around without proper PPE. So in that sense, it makes sense to me that he “owns” it.
Still don’t like the guy though.
If it’s patented, you can just read the patent to know what else is in it.
I could, but I don’t personally care that much about Vantablack.
There is a group (person) that makes an actual super deep black paint called Black 4.0 and if memory serves correctly they actually started with a jab at Kapoor by originally making the Pinkest Pink paint and banned Kapoor from buying it. Looks like they have a lot of different paints these days and are definitely worth checking out.
He doesn’t own it. He has an exclusive license to use it in art. Surrey NanoSystems Limited owns the patent on VantaBlack. Stuart Semple was so angry that Kapoor received that license that he had a blacker black material created and licensed it to anyone but Kapoor. When Kapoor obtained a sample anyway, Semple had a still blacker material created, to spite him.
You can’t skeet on my ex, I trademarked that ass ;)
When you’re born, Pantone checks your skin color and charges you. You need to get a license before you get tanned or they fine you.
My comment on this thread isn’t visible when J view the thread itself. It’s visible if I access it through my own comment history.
Does anyone know why that might be? I’m using the Voyager client for ios.
Can y’all see a comment I made, top level, in this thread, other than this one?
Paying money every time you sit on a chair. Part goes to the owner, part goes to taxes, part goes to the chair maker’s company, part goes to the chair desiger, a drip goes to the chair maker.
Propietary ownership of bacteria that allow fermentation
I would be surprised if this isn’t already a thing
It would be pretty funny if airplane manufacturers trademarked their con-trails, so each type of plain left a different trail behind
If they were all a different color, that’d be pretty damn cool.
Think of the TikTok grifting!
