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Been saying that forever.

I’ve also often had this thought. It became obvious to me how wrong it was when Disney extended Mickey’s copyright before it went into public domain. I found it starkly ironic that a company that built itself on ripping off old stories from the Public Domain, ended up changing the rules to copyright law in order to protect their own.

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Protecting ideas is important, but sometimes intellectual property laws can stop useful knowledge from being shared. That can slow down progress, especially in areas like medicine or technology.

I thought that because I realized that if TSMC forgets their processes, all of humanity does