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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)

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If it's patented, you can just read the patent to know what else is in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

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.