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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    2 months ago

    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