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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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[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i came in to say the same thing. IP law rarely benefits the working class. it's usually a tool used by the likes of disney to bash peasants over the head. it also slows down innovation.

but the problem is, something like this is supposed to coincide with the end of capitalism and implementation of things like UBI.

yeah i agree with especially the last paragraph. i don't think abandoning all IP laws today is realistic, as the commercial art/innovation economy still has too much game to gain so it's gonna take at least 10 more years.