Round Thing Copyright
Tue 12:13 pm +00:00, 31 Mar 2026Imagine if the human who invented the wheel had the concept of copyright at their disposal to determine the further development of such technology. Would it have benefitted or hindered?
As Trump is apparently happy killing Iranians until he comes to a ‘regime’ he’s happy to deal with, my attention span was drawn to the bread and circuses that is football. The topic of copyright and patency arose within the comments of Fritz Freud’s….
Boycott the Football World Cup
https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/boycott-the-football-world-cup
I’ve long printed on my business cards ‘Ideas are shared, not owned.’ I feel copyright and patency are debilitating to progress, energy and health being examples.
That image started with this scribble…
My family on my mother’s side had a wheelwright business in Newmarket, Suffolk, the home of English horse racing. The combustion engine was invented and eventually the family business went out of business. While sketching ground based wheels, I imagined an air born drone eavesdropping on the conversation of idea ownership.
Fritz Freud has a patent; perhaps more than one. We’ve debated the subject before. Fritz commented to me, ‘Because you do not understand the power of technology nor the amount of work that goes into a patent nor the implications of it. Without people like me who dared to do… you wouldn’t be able to write to me now because electricity wouldn’t exist.’
Hmmm. I was taught by my American English teacher to never start a sentence with ‘because’. I wonder if electricity was discovered before the Benjamin Franklin’s, Edison’s, Tesla’s, Faraday’s and Alexander Graham Bell’s of this world? Did the discovery of electricity happen over several centuries, dating back to Ancient Egypt and the understanding of electric fish? Has our history been distorted and misrepresented to the extend ideas and technologies have come, been forgotten and gone? I painted this in Istanbul 2008. Whether it’s true that J.P. Morgan stopped funding Tesla’s ‘free technology’, I don’t know, obviously I wasn’t there, but the often repeated story took my fancy.
Matt Ehret has published articles suggesting Tesla was influenced by occultists and unsavoury characters such as George Sylvester Viereck. Ehret has published at least 14 articles on the subject:
Part 1: Newton, Rosicrucianism and the Imperial Control of Science
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-occult-nikola-tesla-part-1
Part 14: Elon Musk as Tesla 2.0: The Legacy of Technocracy Inc. and the Push for a North American Technate
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/elon-musk-as-tesla-20-the-legacy
Barbara Boyd speaks more enthusiastically and optimistically of Trump than I feel about him. Here she talks to Crypto Rich about the British Rothschild representative J.P. Morgan’s influence in creating the Federal Reserve:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NwDYitN-EE
At least Fritz and myself agree to disagree and continue occasional discourse. I discovered last week that English constitutionalist Graham Moore has blocked E.M. Burlingame on Twitter X over a disagreement on the English crown. Should E.M. Burlingame be interested, 38 minutes in, Graham refers to him to him here:
‘He’s a nice fella, but…’
https://rumble.com/v77mpsu-first-prince-of-orange-parliament-of-england-post-glorious-revolution.-wher.html
I would have thought we have enough protagonists to concern ourselves with, without blocking each other. I’d welcome hearing these two discuss their differences, but c’est la vie. Perhaps I’m particularly sensitive about the subject because several have blocked me.
Anyway, I’m not a fan of copyright and patents. No doubt others I admire might deem my attitude ignorant and short sighted and I realise owning ideas is a multi-billion business. Onto…
Corresponding Artwork Notes Of Reference, Interest & Self-Indulgence
https://nedpamphilon.substack.com/p/round-thing-copyright
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