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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
  • CaptainBasculinEnglish
    29•7 days ago

    I personally believe IP law should only be upheld against big corporations and not individual creators. Creating millions of profits off of someone else’s work is really unethical, but at the same time not every idea should stay restricted only to its creator.

    • @[email protected]English
      30•7 days ago

      The current state seems to be that only big corporations have IP protections.

      Most of the biggest channels on YouTube and TikTok are people who steal other folks content, and this has the tacit approval of the platforms (look at how YouTube handled Sssniperwolf versus jacksfilms. She just records herself laughing at TikToks, he called her out for not crediting folks, she showed up at his house and YouTube said ‘uh uh, seems like both sides are in the wrong here’ because they make buckets of money on her stolen content.)

      YouTube figured out that you can’t host full movies, because Paramount can afford the lawyers. Small time content creators though - fuck them.

      Similarly, look at how Facebook’s LLM was trained on Anna’s Archive. I use Anna’s, because I’m broke, but Facebook could afford to pay for those pdf’s legitimately. (I love how they also claimed that it was okay because they didn’t seed…)

      Current IP law seems to only honor the IP of corporations.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•7 days ago

      Why only big companies? If I write book one of a series that gets super popular and I make some great lump of cash from it, why on earth should you get to write book two with my characters and world, picking up from where my story left off, even if you only make 20K from it, without having to get my approval and likely enter into some kind of deal?