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- Jack Dorsey initiated controversy by suggesting the deletion of IP law.
- The debate highlights the growing tension between defenders of decentralization and traditional legal frameworks.
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Jack Dorsey wants to completely delete IP laws. Elon Musk supports the idea, but not everyone vibe with it.
The co-founder of Block and Twitter, now renamed X, said in a Friday declaration that all forms of intellectual property law, such as copyright or patents, should be abolished.
Delete the whole IP law
– Jack (@jack) April 11, 2025
The declaration quickly sparked a discussion on X, while users weighed on the role of IP laws in the digital age and how to delete them could affect creativity and innovation.
Many, including Musk and Bitcoin Maximalist Max Keizer, showed the support of the idea. They argue that intellectual property laws stifle innovation and creativity.
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The IP law is indeed a global lobotomy of our collective unconscious.
Everything (all ideas) come from our joint conscience and should return there without being embarrassed by the interests of companies as soon as possible.
– Max Keizer (@maxkeiser) April 12, 2025
Some have stressed that current IP laws are exceeded and poorly suited to the digital age, often creating artificial rarity and allowing monopolistic control.
Chris I think it’s worth understanding that there is a real free market file against IP. The IP is in fact a statement granted a monopoly which requires what I believe should be a real individual or commercial freedom to build, to innovate.
For example, see against the intellectual monopoly …
– Stephan Livera (@stephanlivera) April 12, 2025
Agreed. Burn the whole diet.
As you do, innovation will explode like never before. Culture will accelerate. Technology will evolve in real time. Ideas will cease to be hostage to legal fiefdoms and will start to flow as open source code.
The IP law does not protect …
– FRξRONS PRINCILIG (@Tyrannideris) April 11, 2025
However, many leaders and creators of technology have found the Dorsey Deputy Declaration. Chris Pavlovski, the CEO of Rumble, who recently joined the Bitcoin Reserve of the company, has greatly disapproved of Dorsey’s idea.
No!@jack And Big Tech wants to push these garbage so that they can get all your data and content for free.
They hate the IP law because they cannot fly it for AI.
This should not be authorized.
– Chris Pavlovski 🏴☠️ (@chrispavlovski) April 11, 2025
Pavlovski argued that without IP protection, large technological companies could freely use material protected by copyright to train their AI models without authorization or compensation to creators.
It is a horrible catch.
IP creators must be protected.
Big Tech wants to steal content for AI.
The creators make enormous efforts and make lives of their works, and you have just offered to destroy this world.
– Chris Pavlovski 🏴☠️ (@chrispavlovski) April 11, 2025
The co-founder of Story Protocol, Jason Zhao, published a screenshot of block patents in response to Dorsey’s call to remove IP laws.
– Jasonzhao.ip (@jasonjzhao) April 11, 2025
According to Carol Roth, the successful author of the New York Times of “You have nothing”, IP laws are fundamentally essential to protect the rights of creators.
The property rights are natural rights and intellectual property is as much property as something physical.
No one else should be able to copy my books and enjoy it.
No one else should be able to take a brand name or logo and put it on clothes.
And so on.
– Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) April 12, 2025
While recognizing the benefit of patents for inventors, the founder of Manna Bitcoin Wallet, Adam Simecka, said that the current IP system is often “abused by companies”. However, he thinks that the completely elimination of IP laws may not be the solution.
Patents allow people in this country with good ideas that do not have much money to be able to invest in their invention in the hope of achieving a profit before a massive society can steal it.
The IP law is mistreated by societies. Get rid of it may not be the answer
– Adam Simecka (@adamsimecka) April 12, 2025
Musk previously said that patents are “for the weak”, although the technological magnate has used patents to protect certain innovations.
In June 2014, Musk published the Tesla patents. The company has chosen not to bring prosecution against patents against anyone, in good faith, wants to use Tesla technology.
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