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I’ve never understood why trademarks even get bunched in with intellectual property. Trademarks are a much simpler, easily-defensible concept. When you’re selli
by tshaddox 5y ago
I’ve never understood why trademarks even get bunched in with intellectual property. Trademarks are a much simpler, easily-defensible concept. When you’re selling something you can’t lie about fundamental facts about the thing you’re selling.
- notahacker 5y agoBecause trademarks literally are intellectual property. They're words and designs and patterns that were designed by someone else but only laws can exclude people from using. Nothing necessarily dishonest about putting a swoosh designed by an employee of some other corporation on your bag to make it sell more, and nothing necessarily honest about putting words written by someone whose writing is more marketable than yours in a book they won't see any return on.
- mindslight 5y agoBecause "intellectual property" is not the basis of any law, but rather a post-hoc bundling of several disparate legal concepts (some reasonable and some not) in an attempt to cement all them as manifestly necessary.