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Copyright is also just an outright fabricated concept intended to protect interest of authors. It can be expanded or removed as needed.

It's just like an API. The very definition can be changed upstream by patches. People seem to miss that.



Yes, of course! By all means, update the law. I don’t think anyone misses that part of being a human. Any concept we think of is fabricated.

But here’s the real meat of the issue I guess, how far do we wanna go? At what point SHOULD something be un-copyrightable? What describes a certain “style”? My style is black&white, can I copyright that?

What would your diff be? :)




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