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.”

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    That was fine before mass production made perfect copies possible on an industrial scale.

    You don’t need the person when you can copy the object and produce it at volume and scale because you already own the factories.