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

    The problem isn’t IP laws, it’s how they are enforced. They need to be rewritten to help the little guy, not punish them.

  • CaptainBasculinEnglish
    28•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
      28•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?

  • @[email protected]English
    22•7 days ago

    While on the surface I’m very tempted to say “broken clock”, it’s far more likely that their aim isn’t a gift to the commons, but to instead have the free reign to stomp out smaller players in the data harvesting space with raw monetary power through corporate espionage and hoard more data and create better AI models to replace more workers and cut costs.

  • @[email protected]English
    12•7 days ago

    So I can start my own social media company called “X”? Or my own electric car company called “Tesla”? I can copy the logos too?

    • snooggumsEnglish
      9•7 days ago

      If they did away with IP laws entirely there would be no copyright basis for the DMCA to exist. Company branding would be up for grabs. Anyone could do literally anything with anything.

      What Dorsey and Musk actually want is the ability for the wealthy to ignore the law but still have control over their stuff.