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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Those are patents. Patents are not copyright, although they both fall under the general umbrella of intellectual property protection.
Not even journalists understand IP law these days. They’re like “the patent was filed so that competing products could be DMCA’d” 🤦♂️