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gunpowder, movable type, etc.

• varjag 5y ago
  For better or worse, these all predate the modern conventions of intellectual property.
  • Maursault 5y ago
    You are wildly incorrect. Intellectual property rights were invented by ~500BC by Greek colonists in Sybaris (Italy) predating the invention of movable type and the use of gunpowder in warfare by well over a millennia.
    • varjag 5y ago
      Wildly? Anyone practiced these for successive thousands of years elsewhere?
      • Maursault 5y ago
        Just my poor attempt at humor. I should have said, "surprisingly." Nice catch.