s/Telsa/Tesla/ Basically everything Edison supposedly invented was actually pretty much plagiarized by someone else, then credited to himself by way of a paten

s/Telsa/Tesla/ Basically everything Edison supposedly invented was actually pretty much plagiarized by someone else, then credited to himself by way of a patent. Tesla was quite possibly his most-wronged victim. Far from protecting creators, patent law actually enables more effective and insidious means of ripping off the innovators of our culture. Of course the patent office would love Edison, though, because patents were among Edison's favorite tools for screwing over others.