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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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[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I’m cool with it. I think we should require almost everything to be public domain. But I think those personally contributing to the public domain should be recognized, and no one should be allowed to get rich off of it.

[-] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Removing copyright entirely is a bridge too far.

Just roll it back to a reasonable time limit (I dunno, 7 years?), and categorically reject all further lobbying attempts from Disney and the like.

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[-] Naich@lemmings.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

The GPL relies on copyright law to keep software free.

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ok. Then you don't own anything anymore.

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

[-] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah bullshit they want to delete IP law. Go ahead and copy Square, Xhitter, Tesla, SpaceX, etc and watch them explode.

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks 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…

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm pretty much on board with getting rid of software patents as they are absolutely ridiculous, but I don't think we should necessarily get rid of the rest, but they do require reform.

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