Certainly. Laws copypasted from England from before the War of Independence that aren't really used, haven't been updated and that most law enforcement officials haven't heard of. They cover 'interactions with Demons and other malefic creatures'. They don't cover paper.
But those laws will be getting updates in the near future, surely, and laws regarding magic paper will be on the table soon after it gets noticed by congressmen and senators. With inappropriate unrelated riders, of course.
Um, the point was to put inspectors in the factories, if they want to look at the finished product it's not like they can't just buy a ream of paper. Lexcorp doesn't need to let random fishmen off the street into the factories just because they say they are a mage.
I'm led to believe that isn't how law works. There is currently no agency -federal or local- with specific powers to regulate magic. Without a warrant from a judge LexCorp will not be letting just anyone poke around their factory, and even if they did they haven't broken an existing law.
For most people there are no repercussions. Warded paper effects a tiny minority of people, and it's debatable whether what they were doing was legal.
Yes, if you were careful.
Even the creation of a new factory should be subject to inspections from any number of regulatory bodies and his lawyers can do nothing otherwise the factory doesn't have permission to operate.
Because it would be like the government declaring the letter "Y" to be a national resource and hoarding it. It doesn't work.
? Willpower doesn't affect OL's constructs at all.
Nothing notable happened in that week and Zoat wants to get on to the Nabu stuff?
It's analogous to cryptography, and there isn't a ban on that to my knowledge. Also, the American government doesn't use magic to any real degree, and properly trained mages are good enough to get past the weak wards LexCorp uses. The scry wards only significantly annoy 4 people on the planet, all of them Lanterns who have other ways to get around them I doubt many people care at this point.
The Orange Lantern Corps currently consists of a single person, and I doubt anyone outside of the SI's social circle has even heard of it (Guy may have told the Guardians that the SI plans to make an OLC, but that's about it). The OLC doesn't have any weight behind its name right now.
No, she trying to do that in other ways.
This sounds hilarious.
Power rings have plenty of ways of getting around scry wards. It's just not as convenient as using the basic scan. It's like putting a latch on a door: you can't really get in stealthily any more and is more inconvenient than just opening the door, but it doesn't warrant the President's personal attention.
We don't give warrants out for possession of child porn if a person uses cryptography or puts locks on their doors, and nor should we.
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They are also similar to radiation shielding, and bulletproof vests, and they might have side effects.
I'd expect for many politicians to be working on crearing such a regulatory commision. kn the interim... EPA could cover this, maybe? Not really familiar with USA system, but, well, it's magic, and I refer you to ghostbusters foe how this would go.
He doesn't for the same reason I wouldn't -- it's overall a good thing for humanity, and the fact that it's personally inconvenient for him isn't worth upsetting things. Furthermore, letting the villains BELIEVE they have one up on him with it means he's not escalating the arms race: as long as he allows these basic wards to block his basic scan, he isn't pushing it further underground and making a bigger threat that maybe he CAN'T deal with.
There is, actually. That analogy is actually VERY deep and I chose it for a reason. There's quite a bit of history here, and the government used to try to fight against cryptography stronger than what they could defeat themselves. Ever seen export restrictions on software? That's what those are about.
Ah; I was a bit confused. OL and Guy were both being talked about, and I was a little baffled as to why someone was saying a Green Lantern wouldn't benefit from more willpower.
Thank you, corrected.
The factory was inspected when it was built, certainly. They don't refer every design they create with the factory to inspectors.
Yes, they probably will. And Luthor and allies will fight it on the grounds that the FBI and CIA shouldn't just be able to look at whatever they like where magic is concerned any more than they can where cryptography is concerned.
No, plenty of two-bit crooks can't get access. Kobra is a worldwide paramilitary cult. Most other examples are connected to more sophisticated villains. Actual two-bit types go down so easily against a competent Lantern is isn't worth me showing the fight.
Technically, they're just making paper. The design printed on it just makes it very likely that they'll pick up enough magic from their local environment to gain a very low level magic effect.
Luthor would probably ba happy to make the government just as much as it wanted.
You seem entirely ignorant of the basic principle of American Law. You are arguing that the government should be doing this and doing that already, like the wards are something bad. But that is not how it works. You are operating under the assumption that this "ward thing" automatically requires and acquires government oversight. Not so. It there is no law against it, then it is perfectly legal. And before the government could or should even try getting involved, there needs to be a pertinent enabling law. And if you think ad hock adding more taxes on stuff the gov't does not like on a whim out of the blue is something the they are allowed to do, you are in la la land. the stuff Lez Luthor sells would be covered by the generic sales tax. Adding a specific ward tax means you are the idiot senator that looses the election, because this is stuff that is supposed to keep magic users from becoming peeping toms into your personal space. It would backfire like having a specific tax on spyware blockers or email encryption would. That is, make you an look like unelectable fascist twit.
This is you talking nonsense. Having it both ways is both common and sensible. It is called "Argument in the Alternative." In this case, Luthor would argue that since the gov't has not gotten around to making or assigning a regulatory oversight body for magic, and legislatively passed relevant enabling laws, whether it was a ward or not is irrelevant, and the applicable laws would be those concerning paper, and corporate logo trademark law, of which there is nothing offending, and the fact you are not bothering other specialty paper makers undermines their argument. But even if the United States had authority over the ward issue, since the purpose of the wards is to protect the already legally recognized right to privacy and protection against unwarranted search, courts have already made relevant precedent by their rulings regarding other innovations to protect citizens from being spied upon.
Magic runes on currency makes sense as an anti-counterfeiting measure as well.
That... is actually a pretty good anti-counterfeiting measure. If the ward designs make the bills absorb magic, that would be one more hallmark of a genuine bill. Especially of you could make aura scanners sensitive enough that a counterfeit bill's aura would read differently due to differences in manufacture.
Or use a very specific environment in the mint which causes the money to pick up a genuine money type aura. Potentially even using conceptual & sympathetic bullshit to make it depend on the authority of the mint to print money to make that specific aura, rather than just an aura with a given set of properties which only (hah!) means that counterfeiters may just need to wait long enough for the money to pick up a charge of magic using its designs..
I'm not an American and have no training in Law, that might be it.
Luthor has nothing to fear from any inspection, I'm 100% certain that his factories follow every letter of the law. The government is the one that has to be seen approving this procedure just because it holds the current attention of the public and it's desire for security. A panel of magic experts basically saying "Yes, this is all above counter and they work". A popularity win for both LexCorp and the politician that helps. It also assuages the public that this is not the "Devils Work" in more conservative places.
As for this, Atlantean experts were just a first thought about a publicly recognized magic "authority" and pretty topical with forming trade agreements with Atlantis.
Unless they put considerable effort into it, that would just protect the money. And weakly at that.
Actually, the first person they'd reach out to would be the American magic using superhero Giovanni Zatara. For some reason they're having trouble getting hold of him.
