Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey Call For Abolition Of All Intellectual Property Laws, Arguing There Are 'Much Greater Models To Pay Creators'

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.

Much greater models

It's Musk, so the new model is simply "the more money you have, the more you receive"

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.

If you think this means all the sudden you too can pirate without consequences: lol keep dreaming serf

It's so convenient how they only got this opinion after AI became mainstream.

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

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

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.

Is that better model "exposure"?

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

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.

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.

China:

All your bases belong to them

„Hey let‘s destroy this thing! It’s in my way and it‘s not perfect anyway!“

Hearing a lot of that rhetoric being thrown around lately. Especially by elites. It‘s like everyone suddenly wants to destroy things left and right, thinking it‘s in the way of something greater. What that something greater is? Not their concern.

I guess when your only tool is a hammer every problem really starts to look like a nail.

Oh, the things I'm going to create under the X logo...

interesting, I do wonder how movie studios /streaming services will survive that. Some independent creators already mostly survive off commissions so would potentially be able to survive. Microsoft, Nintendo, adobe and Sony can get fucked.