Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.”

X’s current owner Elon Musk quickly replied, “I agree.”

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    13 days ago

    It’s old-school liberal, as in closer to libertarian. Trump courted libertarians, and he claims to be wanting to legitimately downsize things.

    Here’s a rough history of Copyright law in the US:

    1. 1790 Copyright Act under George Washington
    2. 1975 - Democratic majority in both houses, Republican President
    3. 1998 - Republican majority in both houses, Democrat President

    So it’s pretty easy to see that both major parties support copyright extension.

    I doubt he’ll do it, but I could see him doing it just to “own the libs” since Clinton was the last to sign a copyright extension.

    Edit: the person I replied to deleted their comment, but it was basically something like, “that’s a liberal policy, no way Trump is doing that.” So I clarified.