@rl_dane

It says "copyright 1986" and "public domain". Ummm.

@amin

heh 😂

Pre-information-age stuff ;)

@rl_dane

Those are mutually-exclusive states! 😆

@amin

Well, yes. But also, how would he know? Remember, all we had to go on was a dictionary, maybe an encyclopedia at the local library, the people around us, and whatever was already in our heads. ;)

To him, "Public Domain" probably just meant "freeware."

@rl_dane

But… like… just judging from the individual words, that doesn't make any sense. You can't hold the exclusive "right" to "copy" if it is the "domain" of the "public".

@amin

Brofam, people today don't even think about things that deeply. ;)

Accept your exceptionality. ;)

@rl_dane

I am quite exceptional.

I guess most people haven't read the clause of the US constitution that sets forth the basis of copyright. (If they did, maybe more people would consider the current state of it unconstitutional.)

@amin @rl_dane

If it helps, I had absolutely no idea there was anything to to with copyright in the constitution until I saw this comment. And I would consider myself well above average in terms of copyright knowledge.