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.' It's not clear what exactly brought these comments on, but they come at a time when AI companies including OpenAI (which Musk co-founded, competes with, and is challenging in court) are facing numerous lawsuits alleging that they've violated copyright to train their models. Indeed, tech evangelist and investor Chris Messina alluded to this while writing that Dorsey 'has a point,' because, 'Automated IP fines/3-strike rules for AI infringement may become the substitute for putting poor people in jail for cannabis possession.' Others were less sympathetic to this argument, with Ed Newton-Rex (whose nonprofit Fairly Trained certifies AI training practices that respect creators' rights) describing the Dorsey-Musk exchange as 'Tech execs declaring all-out war on...
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