Disney vs Musk when?
Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch
Submitted 2 months ago by zaxvenz@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/jack-dorsey-and-elon-musk-would-like-to-delete-all-ip-law/
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NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 months ago
Geobloke@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Disney would smoke Musk
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I was hoping Ken Penders would follow through on his threat to sue Paramount over Locke and Enerjak technically showing up in the Sonic 2 movie. (Characters who aren’t named, but have the same role as Locke and Enerjak show up… Wouldn’t matter if they were straight up wearing name tags saying “My name is Locke/My name is Enerjak”, the idea that Ken actually won his lawsuits is debunked fiction.)
Seriously, I wanted to see a judge explain to him that no he doesn’t own Knuckles or any Sonic character for that matter. And part of that is that “Settling out of court and being tossed some “Fuck off” money” and “Winning the lawsuit and naming your own terms to be obeyed and altered at your leisure” are two entirely different concepts… With the latter not really a thing outside of deluded day dreams.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d be in favor of a phase out of IP law. It would probably require a LOT more public investment in the arts and sciences. But public funding would lead to public ownership, so society would benefit on the whole.
No one would be getting rich off of creative works, but we would want to be sure that people will still make a living.
Or UBI would work even better.
HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 2 months ago
As much as I also would like IP law to die, I do not think that these two saying such means much.
Jack Dorsey is not in government and worth a 100th of what Musk is worth. And Elon Musk is evil and retarded.
selson@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’ve been on board with this for fucking years. Our IP system in the USA is so fucked. It’s like “death of the creator plus 40 years” or something and then Disney lobbies to increase it further to protect the mouse.
Let me make Mickey Mouse shirts and let me make money off of them!
Let me stream Nintendo games without a cease and desist!
ArchRecord@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Not to mention the fact that the stronger IP law is, the more it’s often used to exploit people.
Oh, did you as an artist get given stronger rights for your work? That platform you’re posting on demands that you give them a license for any possible use, in exchange for posting your art there to get eyeballs on your work.
Did your patents just get stronger enforcement? Too bad it’s conveniently very difficult to fund and develop any product at scale under that patent without needing outside investor funding into a new corporate entity that will own the patent, instead of you!
To loosely paraphrase from Cory Doctorow: If someone wants a stronger lock, but won’t give you the key, then it’s not for your benefit.
If corporations get to put locks on everything with keys they own, but also make it hard for you to get or enforce access to the keys to the locks on your stuff, then the simplest way to level the playing field is to simply eliminate the locks.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m pretty much on board with getting rid of software patents as they are absolutely ridiculous, but I don’t think we should necessarily get rid of the rest, but they do require reform.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Musk saying something doesn’t reflect on the idea itself. For many thousands of years people freely imitated whatever they saw that worked, in a process known as “the spread of civilization”. At some point somebody figured out they could get rich by selling copies of other people’s work and paying them a pittence, aka “royalty”, and boom IP laws were born, and so was the concept that imitation = “stealing”. So now if you rub two sticks together without paying somebody it means you’re evil. Unless they’re evil - in that case you’re fighting for social justice. It all makes so much sense.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Saying something and putting it into action are entirely different. If he does it, I will personally build a statue of musk.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Someone come up with a trump disloyalty pin. I will wear one. How about his profile in baby shit brown behind bars with the caption “Working on it felon 47”.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Good luck bozo
vane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I see someone read “Chokepoint Capitalism” 3 years later.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If we lived in a just world these bastards would be sued into bankruptcy.
ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al 2 months ago
The only reason musk would want this is to put his name officially on ideas he bought. Presumably on patents and whatnot.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I agree fully
x00z@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll make Teslas, but good ones, and I’m not a Nazi.
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 months ago
IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It’s more complicated, because that conflicts with international treaties.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
If those two shitheads said we should drink more water I’d check with other sources first.
Fuck them. I hope they both die for what they’ve done
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
W00T I fully agree. It’s one of those weird moments that I actually agree with scammer Elmo. I’m sure I’m agreeing for different reasons than he’s saying it, but here we are.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Wow. A white guy with money has an opinion. This is getting crazy! /s