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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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[–] C126@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

IP is simply a state backed monopoly privilege. This obviously leads to a slowing of innovation and price rises due to lack of (by force) competition. IP is unethical and doesn’t even accomplish what it sets out to do. You don’t need government promises of monopoly rights to create innovation in the marketplace, competition drives innovation.

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[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I agree fully. This would be the single greatest thing we could do.

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