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Boss: We should include a clock face that looks like that Swiss one.

Minion: Aye aye.

Doesn't mean the boss intended for it to be an exact copy, or that anybody even realized it was protected. Swiss clocks are like 900 years old, surely it's public domain by now, right?

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Public domain? I swear, I feel like I'm living in some kind of bizzaro world where everything copyrighted, trademarked, patented, cursed & sanctified... How is this even a dicussion?! We debating whether shaped are worth suing over & crying designs are worth this much. Am I the only one that sees how hilariously messed up this situation is?

But the second hand has a cancerous growth at the end. The courts must protect this or nobody will create new clock designs anymore!

> 900 years old

Plus or minus, you know, an order of magnitude. The Swiss railway clock was designed in the 40s/50s.

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