I guess this is the end game of owning ideas. From now on everyone will have to come up with their own words to express their own ideas. Anything else makes you a thief.

Let’s see how that works;

“Fo muvh eadvofj. R04fj2dadOIHfq24 IEUrwq03 OIF- q3w89re roif3r oar30hf oyawer.”

Anyone understand me?

If yes;
You owe me royalties for thinking my patent pending language.
(I’ll waive them on the condition that you don’t turn me in for using someone else’s idea 😉

If no;
What exactly is the point of that?!?@#!?

Words, language, only works if we use shared utterances. Otherwise no one else can understand what you’re saying.

Since by definition every word you use has to be known by someone else first (how else did _you_ learn it?) we either have to give up the silly notion that we can own words and phrases or just stop communicating. Admittedly for some people that sounds like a good idea.

If Taylor Swift reused a phrase from Matt Nathanson, who cares? Songs are written about other songs, about poems, about books.

“Wuthering Heights” the book by Emily Bront? lead to a songs by Kate Bush. She was inspired by the 1970 film of the movie. Some of the lyrics are quotes of the book. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_%28song%29 ) I guess the Bront? estate should get to suing. Perhaps people just weren’t that silly in the late 70’s (clothing not withstanding).

The sooner we get over the collective delusion that we can _own_ words or ideas the better off we as a species will be.