Comment on YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed.

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W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It looks like they fuck over inventors.

Most of these appear to be for government projects such as with the Department of Defense and the NSA.

Sometimes, a regular invention outside of government contacts gets labeled with this and the government don’t pay for it. The inventor isn’t allowed to talk about it so they get fucked out of any income.

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