Law « Mimi and Eunice (original) (raw)

Careful II

Why did you punch me? You didn't pay me not to.

…and this is what inevitably happens when you regularly pay people not to punch you.

Trigger

Once again, this is a metaphor for copyrights & restrictive licenses – especially “reserving” “rights” even though you “won’t enforce them.” For Terry Hancock, who hopefully will explain more in the comments.

Without copyright law, art would not exist! Without patent law, inventions would not exist! Without real estate law, land would not exist. Without marriage law, love would not exist.

Stupid, right? But I hear this argument for copyright law all the time.

Patented Emotions

Update: Meir alerts us it’s been translated into Hebrew:

Patented Emotions: Hebrew

Update #2: dm3k translates it into Modern Greek: