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Do the Patent Shakedown

from Future No Brainers by Whipped

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ABOUT THIS SONG:

At the heart of it, this is a song about capitalism and innovation as we shift our focus away from manufacturing goods and instead become an economy based on information and ideas. With this shift, patents, which were once viewed as a rather benign safeguard for intellectual property, are increasingly being used to preemptively trademark vague ideas in the hopes of extorting money from prospective technology companies small and large who are actually trying to make things. This practice is known as patent trolling and it is quickly becoming ubiquitous. This is our freedom song for ideas – our rally against the litigious parasites of the 21st century.

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your failed business ideas have become the patent shakedown
an address in a hallway of doors with no humans to call

write a patent called fuck that
these ideas are free give them away away away
write a patent called fuck that
these ideas are free

we are not arguing against working for a reward
your resume biography wiki can be coined
if for one second you think you’ll get by on bank paper
leave those zeros behind it’s your passwords you take when you die

we’re still obliged when you pay your taxes

(patent shakedown)
karma is your reward
(do the patent shakedown)
upvotes are your reward
good karma’s your reward give it away away away
upvotes are your reward

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from Future No Brainers, released May 13, 2014

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