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Comment by michaelt

4 months ago

Copyright should be shorter, but IMHO it's a lot less bad than patents.

If copyright worked like patents, Disney wouldn't have a monopoly on the Star Wars franchise

Patents tend to be super-broad, so instead they'd have a monopoly on all space-related fictional media.

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