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.”

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 days ago

    For as much as they are abused, “IP laws” protect small and individual inventors, writers, composers, etc.

    Do they? Or do they protect the huge companies that those people have to assign their IP to?