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Explanation
This comic imagines a world where corporations can patent sexual acts, turning intellectual property law into bedroom comedy.
A woman says: "I just sent a $10 licensing fee to Microsoft." The man asks: "To their fellatio division?" She confirms: "All rights reserved."
The caption reads: "Allowing corporations to patent sex acts drastically improved dirty talk."
The humor comes from the absurd collision of corporate IP jargon with intimate situations. The idea that Microsoft would have a "fellatio division," that sex acts would require licensing fees, and that pillow talk would incorporate legal language like "all rights reserved" is inherently funny because of how thoroughly it would kill any romantic mood. Yet the caption claims the opposite — that this "drastically improved" dirty talk — suggesting that some people might actually find legalistic corporate language titillating. The joke also works as a satire of how aggressively tech companies patent everything, imagining a logical extreme where even the most personal human activities become proprietary. The $10 fee being sent to specifically Microsoft adds an extra layer of comedy, evoking the mundanity of software licensing.