This weekend there has been a brief debate around intellectual property laws, after Jack Dorsy, co -founder of Twitter and Square, directly exposed that they must be eliminated and received the support of X owner, Elon Musk, in line with what large companies of articial intelligence They are already requesting the United States government.
“Eliminating all intellectual property legislation” is the message that has begun in X a debate around an issue that has been generating problems for companies such as artificial intelligence, which have been limited by laws that protect copyright when training their models.
Although he has not specified the reason that has led him to expose this idea, Dorsy has been clear, and even has the support of Elon Musk and his simple “I agree.”
Faced with the protection and monetization they offer, as some people have opposed, the technological executive has defended that the current system is limiting creativity “and putting the disbursement of payments in the hands of guardians who do not pay fairly.” Also that “execution and speed” have a priority role in motive to create.
Other messages have highlighted the “opportunistic” character of technological executives, and have questioned whether this elimination would also affect software and hardware. The executive director of Fairly Trained, Ed Newton-Rex, has shared his opinion in Bluesky, where he has said that “technological executives declare a total war against creators who do not want the work of their lives to be looted for profit.”
And he has even followed in X, where he has defended that “eliminating all intellectual property laws reveals such a great misunderstanding of what it means to make a living as an artist who could only say it someone who has not done so.”
China’s threat
At the intersection of messages, it has been mentioned that China has laws on intellectual property, which may be behind this debate: “And you want to have the opportunity to compete with them?” Dorsy said, in this regard.
The United States is preparing an artificial intelligence action plan, with which it seeks to maintain the leadership of companies and national models against competition that other markets propose, mainly Chinese.
Companies such as Openai and Google believe that it is a good time to have access to contents protected by copyright, even through exceptions, since, as a company of Mountain View, they allow the use of copyright protected by copyright and publicly available for training in AI without significantly affecting rights holders and avoid negotiations. “