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Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by zaxvenz@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hard yes. Glad to see there's at least one thing we are aligned on.

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I'm curious: why?

Removing IP law just feels like it would only benefit those with the resources to scale new technology quickly. It basically kills all start ups.

edit: word

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

My hatred of Disney knows no bounds lol.

Seriously though, I would like to see IP law replaced with something that benefits the little guy more than the big guy. I assume that, similar to "defund the police" really means "replace the police with a different system," "delete all IP law" really means "replace IP law with a different system."

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yep. People are really shortsighted here.

If you scrapped all our IP laws, you could spend years writing a book, spend all your savings on getting it published, only for the likes of Amazon to steal your work and make millions from it.

We need IP laws to protect people and small businesses.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Example. Copyright is a joke. For art if you have more lawyers, you win. For software mandatory copy laws are not enforced and source code gets destroyed forever.

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah copyright is useful for free software. Patents, we could probably live without patents

Trademark is also useful. I don't want Tyson making fake vegan hot dogs

[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Free software is response to software copyright and software patents.

Trademark is also useful. I don't want Tyson making fake vegan hot dogs

It has nothing to do with trademark.