return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoRepublican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sitesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square149fedilinkarrow-up1670arrow-down14cross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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minus-squareVonReposti@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoYou don’t need to copyright it. Everything is copyrighted by default. You can decide to relax your copyright protection if you want, but the © symbol isn’t some magic spell. The sign kinda makes it look like it works the other way.
minus-squarebthest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·edit-22 months agoThe sign isn’t meant to be taken literal. It’s hyperbole.
You don’t need to copyright it. Everything is copyrighted by default. You can decide to relax your copyright protection if you want, but the © symbol isn’t some magic spell. The sign kinda makes it look like it works the other way.
The sign isn’t meant to be taken literal. It’s hyperbole.