stankmut

I think people are mixing up copyright up with what Sony does with Spider-Man due to licensing terms. Like not only does copyright last damn near forever, you don’t need to keep releasing stuff to renew it and it doesn’t just go away because you aren’t using it.

There’s also a lot of confusion with trademarks. People will often defend big corporations threatening fan art because they “have to defend it or lose their copyright”, which is a trademark thing and not copyright.

If you turn the disc over, you can actually count the rings without needing to cut into it! This lets you skip having to glue the disc back together after checking the age.

The hospital has a method it can use if it wants to avoid losing access to federal funding without having to violate state law by pulling gender-affirming care. It can file a lawsuit in federal court and ask for a restraining order on enforcement of the executive order. That’s the decision to make if the entire community’s interest was in mind.