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  • In general, not interfering is the default position, there needs to be a reason it should enjoy protection.

    Need to look at the goals the legislators were pursuing when they wrote the law. If protecting typefaces hinders the production of new books, that goes against the intent of the law. It might not make a difference on that front NOW, but back when typesetting was done by hand, and you needed a whole set of physical type for each typeface, it was a bigger deal.

    The point of copyright is to encourage creativity, and there are reasons you might not care about encouraging creativity in typefaces. It’s a bit like trying to copyright how you pronounce a word, getting TOO creative here makes it more difficult to convey meaning, and people will do it anyway without the protection of copyright, it’s just a natural consequence of how language develops.









  • Who took away our option to vote to make things better?

    The first past the post election system did.

    If you want things to get better in elections, you need to get rid of primaries. Instead implement a voting scheme where you aren’t punished for ranking your desires honestly.

    In the current system, the only votes that matter are the ones for the two leading candidates. Any other vote is equivalent to not voting.