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.”

  • primemagnus@lemmy.caEnglish
    108·
    2 days ago

    As a creative with many friends in the industry, go fuck yourselves! You can pry my IPs from my cold dead fingers.

      • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        In what sense is a ladder getting pulled up if IP is respected? Anyone can make a new IP, there’s not a limited supply of imagination. You can’t make everyone like what you come up with or buy it, but why should that entitle you to being able to profit off someone else’s work?