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  • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Google would take some high-schooler’s work and profit off of it in that case. In today’s world, said high-schooler would receive some compensation.

    If you think that this is far-fetched, it literally happened just now with Beeper Mini. A high-schooler received a $400k payout because he had ownership of his work.