IP, Part Three: A Copyright for Everyone!

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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As Ben, Noel and Max close out another year of Ridiculous History, they return to the patently baffling world of intellectual property. In part three of this series, the guys finally tackle one of the weirdest concepts out there -- a thoroughly confusing thing called a 'copyright'. What is it? Where did this idea come from, how does it work... and what exactly does it protect? Tune in to learn more.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show fellow ridiculous historians.
0:29.5	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:33.0	Let's hear it for our super producer, Mr. Max, copyright Williams. I mean, it was the only one. It was the only possible one nickname-wise for this episode. I actually do have a copyright on myself. Whoa. Yeah. But, I mean, granted, we all get copyrights as soon as we create something. But we'll get to that later. Right. That's right, yes, of course. He put it out there.
0:54.4	Technically, it's copywritten.
0:55.7	But there's also like, you know, caveats to death.
0:58.8	Oh, so many.
1:00.2	And it reminds me of our conversation on the daily zeitgeist about stuff like the poor man's copyright.
1:07.3	As we'll see, having a copyright and defending a copyright can be a little complicated.
1:15.1	Oh, we forgot to introduce ourselves.
1:16.7	That's Mr. Noel Brown.
1:18.2	Hi, you're Ben Bowling.
1:19.8	That's me.
1:20.8	And we are continuing our series on IP, the short term for intellectual property.
1:29.2	IP, UP, you P, we all pee for intellectual property.
1:32.6	Mm-hmm.
1:33.4	And as we set off here, IP first, I poop second.
1:37.7	I got a question here.
1:39.1	Yes, of course, Max.
1:40.2	Does the two-hump camel have a two-hump pee?
1:44.6	I don't understand.
1:47.3	It's a reference to everyone poops.
1:50.8	Yeah, and then the much less popular book, nobody poops but you.
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