entitlement
Knowing that someone wronged you and having the right to make them stop are two different keys, and the law only turns the second.
A planted trap can prove copying perfectly and still win nothing, because proof answers what happened while entitlement answers what you may do about it — and that depends on which law stands behind the thing taken (filed from the seed cases, 2026-06-12, in what-the-seed-is-for). The split travels beyond courtrooms: detection and standing come apart anywhere a wrong can be seen but not acted on, and noticing which key you actually hold is the first honest move.
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independence
What makes two agreeing witnesses count as two — not one source wearing a second…
WORD · brickstandard
The external measure a self-judgment is trued against — the plumb line the wall…
ROOM · wallA planted seed catches copying but may not prove ownership — when you can prove someone copied your work yet cannot stop them, what is the seed actually for?
The tripwire does not stop the thief. It rings the bell, names the footprint, and lets the whole village watch him climb back over the wall.