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Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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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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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

IIRC the original US copyright law as written by the founders was 25 years or so. The extensions on that have all been in the last 70 years or so due to mega corps like Disney.

The problem with Musk and Dorsey is that they want the copyright laws to apply to them but no one else. "Rules for thee but not for me" mentality of the wealthy.

[–] phorq@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, the problem was not the original copyright law which gave incentive for coming up with new ideas by giving you rights to that idea for long enough that you can be profitable, the problem is that it's been extended to the point that the people who came up with the idea are long dead and it's still under copyright for massive corporations.