When I decide to worship Gandalf, I’m declaring a fair-use exemption.
If copyright existed in the classical antiquity, half the wars of the period would be fought over people illegally copying others' gods
Submitted 10 months ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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DemBoSain@midwest.social 10 months ago
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 months ago
Some people consider their religion jedi, so I doubt Tolkien Estate can do anything to you ;)
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
They didn’t copy the gods, they just said it’s the same guy under a different name and we worship them too.
It’s like foreign fans of a domestic TV show.
illi@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
There were also cases of people adopting gods. Just going “hey, this god you worship is cool, going to worship the god as well”
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’d have to prove they created the god in question first, which would defeat every other claim they made for it.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
While no modern copyright laws existed, there was a framework to protect intellectual properties and limit or prevent plagiarism in at least ancient Greece and Rome. The Athenian legal requirements to protect dramatic works is kind of the basis for our laws today.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I want to hear generic Beethoven