Jack Dorsey, co -founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now block), sparked a valuable debate of a weekend about intellectual property, licenses and copyright, with a characterically harsh post stating, “delete all IP law”.
The current owner of X Elon Musk soon replied, “I agree.”
It is not clear what exactly brought these comments, but they come at a time when companies including Openai (with which Musk co-founded, competing with him, and is challenging in court) are facing numerous lawsuits claiming that they have violated copyright to train their models.
Indeed, the Gospel and the technology investor Chris Messina alluded to this while writing that Dorsey has a point “because,” Automated IP fines/3-stricten rules for violating him can become a substitute for putting poor people in prison for possession of cannabis. “
Others were less charming for this argument, with Ed Newton-Rex (non-profit of which fairly confirms training practices of one who respects creators’ rights) describing Dorsy-Musk exchange as “technology executives who declare comprehensive struggle for creators who do not want their deceived work for profit.”
And the writer Lincoln Michel wrote that “none of Jack’s or Elon companies would exist without IP law”, adding, “They just hate artists.”
Dorsey elaborated on his stay in the later answers, writing that there are “much larger models to pay for the creators” while claiming that “the current ones take a long time from them and only the lease.”
He made a similar point when the lawyer (and former -Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Running Mate) Nicole Shanahan withdrew with a “no” “no”.
“The IP law is the only thing that separates human creations from its creations,” Shanahan said. “If you want to reform it, let’s talk!”
Dorsey objected, “Creativity is what currently separates us, and the current system is limiting it, and making payment to disbursement in the hands of the door -to -do not pay.”
Musk’s response is at least in accordance with the statements he has made in the past, for example by telling Jay Leno that “patents are for the weak”.
A decade ago, in a so -called “patent gift”, he pledged that Tesla would not implement patents against other companies that used them “in good faith”. (The company then sued Australia’s CAP-XX for patents, but she said it was a response to a CAP-XX lawsuit against a Tesla subsidiary.)
And Dorsey, of course, initiated the open social media project that eventually became Bluesky, though he seemed to be disappointed and eventually left the Bluesky board. (Bluesky General Director Jay Graber recently said Dorsey’s departure “released” the company from appearance as a billionaire’s side project.)
It is also noteworthy that the line between a case on Twitter/X and the current government’s policy is thinner than it was, with Musk to join the Trump administration and postpone mass vacations through its government efficiency department – called a meme and mainly staffed by the technology world.
