If copyright existed in the classical antiquity, half the wars of the period would be fought over people illegally copying others' gods

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • illi@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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”

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• DemBoSain@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When I decide to worship Gandalf, I’m declaring a fair-use exemption.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Some people consider their religion jedi, so I doubt Tolkien Estate can do anything to you ;)

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’d have to prove they created the god in question first, which would defeat every other claim they made for it.

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I want to hear generic Beethoven

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