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Conan O’Brien: Why I Decided to Settle a Lawsuit over Alleged Joke Stealing
- aSockPuppeteer 8y agoThere is currently no legal precedent for joke theft. Many people create the same current event jokes. So, this comes down to Intellectual property theft. Lawyers at Conan's level are retained. I think that they do not want to be the top search result (as they are today) for joke theft and this was a mitigation attempt.
- arduous 8y agoCan we, for just a moment, stop and think about what you just wrote? I mean it's so draconian that it begs disbelief. A couple of mortals are born as infants upon this plain of existence. They get a short amount of time to sample what experience is, while bound by gravity to a spheroidal object, encapsulated in a region of its somewhat humid biosphere. A joke is made, laughs are shared. From that moment forward, the teller of the joke spends the rest of their time trying to destroy all other mortals, unless they acqiesce to an awareness that the joke teller is the eternal master of that joke, until no mortal yet lives, who had shared this plain of existence as a contemporary of the joke teller. LEST YE BE ANNIHILATED. Sorry. Not playing this game with you. I'm thinking a quick death is likely preferable, and might just be the best escape from a place like this.