You wanna cuck small businesses and creators? Because I highly doubt these two guys have a better model. IP sucks, but it just needs to be dialed back from Disney’s corruption to a reasonable amount like 5-15 years. Not 75 years after the creators death like wtf with more shenanigans to extend it. Absolutely not. Like all things, IP and copyright laws are fucked because Corporations fucked them with lobbyists. If you see trouble, theres a corpo behind it.

Jack Dorsey is as irrelevant as Elon Musk. They can go fuck themselves like every other Technocrat.

Can’t wait for the Square, Xhitter, and SpaceX code and blueprint leaks.

Much greater models

It’s Musk, so the new model is simply “the more money you have, the more you receive”

Is that better model “exposure”?

Elon certainly talks a good line, but his actions don’t really follow. Like, I agree with this, eliminating intellectual property would be great. I am sure that whatever actions he tries in regards to this won’t actually follow through and will instead somehow be twisted to benefit him at the cost of others.

“There are much greater models [that we can skim a 30% fee from]”

The hilarious thing is you know that Rickey Rats or HBO Minimal or Netflops wouldn’t agree to getting rid of IP laws… unless it doesn’t apply to them and their IP.

Get rid of your silly protections and let Musky’s AI decide how much to pay you (if anything).

The debate has drawn a mixed bag of reactions. Tech evangelist Chris Messina supported Dorsey’s stance. He wrote on BlueSky social, “Jack has a point" as “Automated IP fines/3-strike rules for AI infringement may become the substitute for putting poor people in jail for cannabis possession.”

Yeah, good thing that’s not still happening or anything…

/s

All your bases belong to them

Oh, the things I’m going to create under the X logo…

Eww it never feels right to align with them on an issue.

Give us free rein over human culture. Our modern mythos, legend, and literature need not be deprived from public use due to capitalistic ownership.

I find this surprising, because frankly I agree.

I don’t know much about Dorsey, but in Musk’s case, I think this is another case of him espousing a good idea he’d never actually honor.

I think that anyone should be able to make movies with Mickey Mouse and no one should need to license code. But I suspect that like with free expression, these are values most proponents only like when it’s benefiting them.

Also, as for the alternatives to support creatives, I would say start with universal services. Universal housing, universal healthcare, universal education, universal food. We would have so much more art if we recognized that no one should have to “earn” their survival. Once that’s guaranteed – and abolish billionaires and extreme wealth inequality too – I think discussions over how to support creatives would take place from a much more favorable starting point.

In an ideal society, IP laws would definitely not exist. The idea by itself is inarguably desirable.

But, more practically, IP laws should be abolished or reformed to accommodate the needs of the average creator and the average consumer. The two people who proposed this change are not average creators in the slightest, they’re looking to benefit primarily their own class, the consequences for the other 99.99% are irrelevant.

A reform of this type should start at the very least with small and realistic steps. Can we e.g. reduce the absurd duration of copyright protection (author’s life + 70 years)? Reducing it by just 20-30 years would be an incredible boon to human culture, and it would have zero serious negative consequences.

But they only talk about it in the most vague terms, no details or anything, and Dorsey doesn’t seem to have actually described any of those other ways of compensation. They’re just greedy megalomaniacs throwing ideas around.