Was thinking of this after a conversation I had on a thread about dreams. Someone joked “I was dreaming of the events of The Matrix, then I was woken up by someone worried my dream was infringing the Wachowski’s copyrights”, and it turned into a whole train of thought in my mind, like violating IP law because you stole fire from Zeus which was his intellectual property.

    • palordrolap
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      51 day ago

      Rest assured that they’ve already had that idea a dozen times already, and if they thought they could make it stick, they would have done so by now.