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.
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
Nah it should be like fetishes, the more obscure the more expensive. But you can get John or Mark for free.
So, who owns the name?
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
Royalties every time you use a line from a Disney musical in spoken conversation
Let it go
You must never go there.
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.
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
Planetary air is free as no one could prove in court that they had any hand in its design or creation.
However the air in contained facility such as a space station or mars habitat is copy protected. Each inhabitant requires a Microsoft 365 style license renewed annually to breathe. Special areas of the habitat or use cases such as atheltic activities require special temporary licenses.
Hmmm Brb: writing synopsis.
Didn’t Nestle want to do this with water?
Propietary ownership of bacteria that allow fermentation
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.
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.
