The (Only) Four Things To Say If You’re Stopped By The Police

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Copyright refers to the legal right of the owner of intellectual property. In simpler terms, copyright is the right to copy. This means that the original creators of products and anyone they give authorization to are the only ones with the exclusive right to reproduce the work.

They are apparently - according to the linked article - claiming they are the only ones with the right to say "shut the fuck up". Am I reading that wrong, or misunderstanding the meaning of copyright?

I'd like to know if I did an oopise here.

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Hmmm. Well the way I read it was that the copy-write was on the 25-word script, like a book is copy-writed, and that the "shut the fuck up" is advice on what to do when asked questions, not what to say to an Oink when confronted by one in the performance of their Oinkerism, so to speak. Nothing illegal about quoting a copy-written book, or even reading the whole thing out in public for that matter, unless you are engaged in business and making a profit at the time of reading. Like having someone orate a book in a coffee shop to entertain customers, that would constitute breach of copy-write I believe.

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Over time, the suggestions developed into a copyrighted 25-word script.

“Shut the fuck up!” they exclaim in unison, reciting another line they’ve had copyrighted.

Thanks, had overlooked that first mention of copyright. My annoyance could be due poor sentence construction on the part of the article writer. They make it sound like the STFU line was copyrighted in particular. Should have inserted "from their 25 word script" in that reference.

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The pot brother lawyers, what the fuck is the world coming to?

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In the way so many of those old science fiction movies became reality, so too are all those subsequent weird and dystopian movies. Not sure if they use them to prep us, or if it's the widespread belief in the concepts that results in their actualization. Either way, we're in for a ride.

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198? Arnold Schwarzenegger "True Lies" followed by a decade of other Arab terrorist movies and TV shows, and then the invasion of the middle east? 10 years and more of virus zombie movies and then covid? If you want to convince a nation that seemingly insane activities are ok...

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C'mon man, everyone nose that's all a bunch of conspiracy hokum.

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I only wish they knew one way or another. Once you connect the dots there is a clear pattern hey, like the agenda to weaken men by portraying them as total babies in film. That last starWars move, which I watched purely for information purposes, was rife with whiny baby-like men throwing temper tantrums. Even the original hero, Luke skywalker, was reduced to an incompetent fool. If it was me I would have told them to stick their movie up their arse, but being a Hollywood has-been he would no doubt have played any character just to get back on the screen. Fucking Joos