@hailey I was just reading this this morning which seems timely
“I am of the firm belief that we are hitting a watershed where economics and morality are coming to a head, like, ‘Look: intellectual property law is based off some ideas that came out of 1400s Venice. They’re not applicable and they’re being abused and people are dying every day because of it, and it’s not OK,’”
https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/
@plexus In English-speaking world, 1700s' London. You know, the kind of world where the queen would want to deny any publisher the right to copy a book that the queen didn't like, but when codifying it, she tacked on a wee bit of le droit d'auteur kind of stuff to reduce the Parliament's push-back.