Reply to post: Re: if cost == 0 then panic

Hey, remember that monkey selfie copyright drama a few years ago? Get this – It's just hit the US appeals courts

Richard Plinston

Re: if cost == 0 then panic

> Imagine if the Patent Office got the same number of autopatents as ...

They'd be insane rich from the application fees and would do their usual autoapprove so that they kept the fees and the annual renewals. Any challenges would require fees to be paid for that. Business as usual then.

> Youtube get DMCA takedown requests

Now, if a fee was required to be paid for a takedown request ...

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