Superheroes have armor to protect their bodies, and gadgets to fight their enemies, but what protects them from impostors, what can they use to fight off infringers? A superhero’s intellectual property consists of everything from their insignia to their gadgets and even their catch phrases. In some cases intellectual property protection safeguards the means by which they obtained their powers and their very DNA.
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Many of the laws of our society are drafted with our mortality in mind, some are even written because we’re mortal. The interplay between death and the law has been studied by scholars and philosophers for centuries, gaining increasing attention with advances in medical science. The certainty of death is one constant not present in the lives of many superheroes. Was Dostoyevsky right, can there be no virtue without immortality, or do these invincible beings create an unnecessary complication in our lives and laws?
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