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Written by Luna Dragofelis ΘΔ 🏳️‍⚧️ on 2025-01-16 at 20:08

Stop applying copyright logic to culture. Stop applying copyright logic to anything. Copyright sucks.

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Written by Luna Dragofelis ΘΔ 🏳️‍⚧️ on 2025-01-16 at 20:13

Patents suck equally.

Trademarks are fine, as a mark of genuinity. But trademarking whole colors or patterns, like how paw prints on clothing is trademarked by one single company (jack wolfskin), is as insane as copyright and patents and can go die in a fire along with those.

Let other people make paw print clothes, as long as they're not literally writing your brand name on it.

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Written by nachtpf03tchen on 2025-01-16 at 20:24

@LunaDragofelis i think the core idea of patents is good. like the idea of documenting knowledge and not have everywhere company trade secrets.

But yeah it has become very absurd in how they are used and what is patentable.

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Written by Aknorals⚑Ⓐ 🏴 on 2025-01-17 at 21:00

@nachtpfoetchen @LunaDragofelis

The core idea of patents is that nobody should be allowed to do a thing except this giant corporation. Basically, stifling the freedom of every individual on earth in the name of a government backed monopoly for a single corporation (or theoretically, individual).

Applied, as it often is, to medicine, Patents are a form of mass murder.

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Written by nachtpf03tchen on 2025-01-17 at 21:13

@Aknorals @LunaDragofelis idk, often enough the alternative is to like not make the recipe publice. i really think patents aren't the problem. The pharma companies coming through with their bs is the main culprit.

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Written by Aknorals⚑Ⓐ 🏴 on 2025-01-17 at 21:24

@nachtpfoetchen @LunaDragofelis Patents make it literally illegal to do research with intent manufacture or distribute an object. Universities can of course do free research for the patent monopoly holder, but telling every human on earth they aren't allowed to save lives by researching 3D printed biomechanical kidneys is the height of capitalist evil.

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Descendants

Written by Aknorals⚑Ⓐ 🏴 on 2025-01-17 at 21:26

@nachtpfoetchen @LunaDragofelis I picked that example because it predates my mom going on dialysis after her kidney started failing, and still hasn't come out after 7 years of her on dialysis or the 5 months after her death.

Fuck patents. Every lawmaker that pushes them is a genocidal maniac and acts against them should be treated like stopping a mass shooter.

How many millions must die in the name of government backed monopolies? (typically on what's university funded research anyways)

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