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I type my poems in Microsoft Word, Which capitalizes when I don’t want it to. Microsoft capitalizes on its digital monopoly. Monopoly is a board game about capitalism that I played as a child with tokens and play money. But I spend real money on Microsoft Word. I don’t want capitalism to rule my world. My world needs rules. Such as, the writer decides when to capitalize. Capitalizing Word makes it a brand name. A brand name is copyrighted, as are my poems. But do  I own the copyright to my poems in Microsoft Word? Word has it that if Monsanto seeds blow onto your farm, the plants they become belong  to Monsanto. Word.
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Mar 11, 2020
Mar 11, 2020 at 11:29 PM UTC
Word
I type my poems in Microsoft Word, Which capitalizes when I don’t want it to. Microsoft capitalizes on its digital monopoly. Monopoly is a board game about capitalism that I played as a child with tokens and play money. But I spend real money on Microsoft Word. I don’t want capitalism to rule my world. My world needs rules. Such as, the writer decides when to capitalize. Capitalizing Word makes it a brand name. A brand name is copyrighted, as are my poems. But do  I own the copyright to my poems in Microsoft Word? Word has it that if Monsanto seeds blow onto your farm, the plants they become belong  to Monsanto. Word.
my attempt at a poem style called a "duplex."
#capitalism#duplex#intellectualproperty#sovereignty#monopolies
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scarlet-mccall
Mar 11, 2020
Mar 11, 2020 at 11:29 PM UTC
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