Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and

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.”

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    12 days ago

    Yep. People are really shortsighted here.

    If you scrapped all our IP laws, you could spend years writing a book, spend all your savings on getting it published, only for the likes of Amazon to steal your work and make millions from it.

    We need IP laws to protect people and small businesses.