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CopyRighteousness strikes again, how long will it take before someone could copyright the air?
by type0 8y ago
CopyRighteousness strikes again, how long will it take before someone could copyright the air?
- jpatokal 8y agoQuite the opposite: the EU found that you cannot copyright food tastes.
- type0 8y agoYes, sure. Just shows that their lobbying was ineffective, better luck next time.
- aaron695 8y agoSo I could spend millions designing and displaying an amazing art piece, using something like fireworks and I should have zero protections. Your argument holds to books and video equally so I think we should talk about that issue on the common rather than rarer forms of art like using air to create a thing of value. Speaking of air but not copyright, obviously the current default composition of air is not optimal for humans. One does wonder how many billions of lives get cut short because of it, what is the optimal level of oxygen the body needs? But I see little incentive to find what it would be since it could not be protected financially. So we get relegated to simplistic meta studies on things like additives aka PM 2.5. There are reasons we have protections for intellectual property. They are not jokes.