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Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.”

X’s current owner Elon Musk quickly replied, “I agree.”

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

Interesting considering the lack of IP law is going to become Tesla's downfall.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Honestly at this point, poor people have no form of IP protection whatsoever, even before chat GPT it was commonplace for megacorps to just take other peoples work and profit from and now that LLMs are here its outright routine. So why keep that shit when it only benefits the rich.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

Ok. Then you don't own anything anymore.

I'll start making Teslas that don't suck.

[–] theblips@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Can't disagree here, this would be great

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Capital finally taking the market out behind the barn.

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

I think Disney might have a few things to say about that.

Along with every other film studio, record company, publisher, video game studio…

…engineering firm, architecture firm…

…pharma company, law firm…

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] void_turtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

The only sensible thing either of these two have ever said. All knowledge belongs to all humankind.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And people flocked to this guy's social network

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is not and never was his social network. And the fact that they upset him so badly that he left is probably a good sign.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I'd be in favor of a phase out of IP law. It would probably require a LOT more public investment in the arts and sciences. But public funding would lead to public ownership, so society would benefit on the whole.

No one would be getting rich off of creative works, but we would want to be sure that people will still make a living.

Or UBI would work even better.

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The GPL relies on copyright law to keep software free.

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