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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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[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months 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.

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

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago
[-] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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

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

Ok. Then you don't own anything anymore.

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

[-] C126@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

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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[-] void_turtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

And people flocked to this guy's social network

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