• Zink@programming.dev
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    13 hours ago

    Making it so corporations cannot directly own some random valuable thing?

    It’s a nice thing to think about, but it has 0% chance of happening in our current system.

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      7 hours ago

      They kind of could. They could employ someone to own the copyright, and pay them handsomely to retain control of that copyright.

      That’s honestly how it should be. The same should be true for patents.

      Trademark, however, should be company controlled.

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        5 hours ago

        Oh I didn’t mean that it couldn’t be done. Just that it wouldn’t be. The people who control such things are actively moving our system in the opposite direction.

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          5 hours ago

          Not without a populist movement, no.

          And IMO, it shouldn’t be our top priority either. We should focus on electoral reform so it’s easier to get decent representatives in office, making it easier to pass stuff like this.