🔵 i get to steal your own work instead! i get control over your vision, your ideas, and how the work ought to come into existence.

i, the critically acclaimed artist of "Nomu," don't really care how my work is being stolen. i can reclaim that by just controlling other people's ideas instead.

🔵 that rent is either literal rent; royalties to the trademark, or it's a service i want you to do:

-change the name.
-change the game.
-change its artstyle.
-change its mechanics.
-compromise your vision for me, the artist with power over you, because i have... what was it...

mental real estate? no...
digital land? no, that's not it either...

oh yeah! it was something called Intellectual Property.

🔵 i, the critically acclaimed artist behind "Nomu," set up the ability about 3 years ago to directly call you and anyone like you.

i get to threaten to take down your (keep in mind, completely unrelated and fresh) idea and work, unless you pay me rent.

🔵 if i, say, trademark the japanese word, "nomu" (to drink,) because it's the title of my critically acclaimed book series, titled, "Nomu," i now get the ability to legally threaten others.

do you have a video game about drinking water? wanna be funny and call it "Nomu Adventure?"

too bad!