• MeanEYE@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Intellectual property rights. They even wanted to extend it recently so they can milk old stuff.

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      Perhaps it could be like copyrights and patents? If you don’t defend them, you lose them, and in some cases they expire after a set amount of time and then they can be used by others