Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch
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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
  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Fully agree with them. Literally for the first time and literally for not the same reason, because you know these assholes think only about themselves whereas I’m trying to think of what would be best for all. I understand why IP law partially in some form should exist, I also understand that currently IP law is abusive as fuck and only serves a very specific group of people, as always

    • Mortoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      If we got rid of IP law now, without changing anything else in society, it would massively reduce the ability to earn a living from creative work, making humanity that much duller.

      I agree in the long run IP law sucks, but there’s so much in our society that needs to be fixed before killing IP law could do more good than harm.

    • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      “Remove all IP law so I can use it on AI, but my AI is still protected” is the feeling I get from this. The Poors ideas are open to companies, but companies are still safe from The Poors