Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.

• Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Voiding all IP law would cause a huge loss in the creative community.

  If people can no longer pay their bills by creating then they stop creating and work. If I can’t pay my bills by writing a book or creating art and selling it, then I stop doing that and get a job at Walmart.

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  • EnsignWashout@startrek.website ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Voiding all IP law would cause a huge loss in the creative community.

    I agree. I wouldn’t be in favor of “burn it down” if I thought we could negotiate better terms with our current IP oligarchs.

    If people can no longer pay their bills by creating then they stop creating and work.

    I’ll still be available to do creative work. It wouldn’t change my current work-for-hire efforts.

    Very little valuable IP is held by actual creators, today.

    Why dump years and your heart and soul into a great book just to have it distributed for free and be poor.

    Are you an actual published creator, or a temporarily embarrassed future billionaire? Is there a version of success for you that isn’t just selling to a big IP company to get enough money to retire? That’s what it looks like, to me. The peak of my possible success would be to write something that threatens/tempts the big IP holders enough to force them to buy me out. If I don’t take the buy out, they eventually bury my thing with their advertising power.

    I don’t really disagree with you. I’m actually in favor of keeping and fixing IP laws, if that’s possible.

    But I believe the IP laws we have now only serve our billionaire employers. So, as a creator, I won’t fight to keep our current IP laws.

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    • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I agree. I wouldn’t be in favor of “burn it down” if I thought we could negotiate better terms with our current IP oligarchs.

      So since we can’t save it, we just burn it down? The legal system isn’t doing so hot either, should we just get rid of laws? I mean rich people can break then and regular people can’t, should we just get rid of them since we can’t fix it right now?

      I’ll still be available to do creative work. It wouldn’t change my current work-for-hire efforts.

      I don’t know what kind of work you do, but it would impact many. You can’t show drafts, you can’t present mock-ups, etc, because they can just take those. You could make art for someone saying they will pay and then they don’t. You could get a refund, but they just copied the art and it’s theirs now.

      This also harms people who in literature especially. They don’t own the book they write. And for anyone to appreciate it, they also have the ability to give it away for free. But I guess since it doesn’t impact you, it’s somehow not a problem?

      Very little valuable IP is held by actual creators, today.

      This may be true, but guess how they lost that IP? They sold it. They owned it and were able to sell it to a bigger company that could run away with it. Without IP the selling part goes away, they just take it and run away with it. I mean come on, how do you think authors make money?

      Are you an actual published creator, or a temporarily embarrassed future billionaire? Tell me you don’t understand empathy without telling me. You made it very clear before by the “it won’t impact me” statement, but this is just next level. Because I and many other can see how this will cause damage, that means nothing because we’ve not been personally impacted?

      But that falls apart when I have actually created and sold software. I have created IP. And I’ve had actually to defend my personal IP from a previous employer.

      Is there a version of success for you that isn’t just selling to a big IP company to get enough money to retire? That’s what it looks like, to me.

      What? You’re just making up a scenario in your head. If you can sell your IP to company and live comfortably for the rest of your life while they do all the heavy lifting and you get paid while people enjoy what you create, how is that some big loss? Because you want all the money? Sure, then self publish, it’s an option. Start a small LLC, people do it, stop acting like it’s the only way forward.

      The peak of my possible success would be to write something that threatens/tempts the big IP holders enough to force them to buy me out. If I don’t take the buy out, they eventually bury my thing with their advertising power.

      I mean, false. This is just wrong, people have created companies, brands, book series, etc. This just seems like you have decided you have no chance so you don’t try and want to tear down the system so you can get yours.

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• Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I personally fear that if such a decision was passed, we would see big companies find loopholes and exceptions and/or they would make their profit entirely by stealing from creators without compensation or acknowledgements.

  You want to hurt the big companies so badly you’re willing to saw the branch they, you and everybody else sit on just so you can see them fall.

  I doubt the big companies will be the ones who will feel threatened into negotiations if IP laws were abolished. They would flourish with their businesses and the AI tech bros would have field day making billions by stealing from all of us.

  Your utopia is every creator’s nightmare.

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  • EnsignWashout@startrek.website ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your utopia is every creator’s nightmare.

    I didn’t say “utopia”. We need IP laws. But since we continue to let Disney (and other mega corporations) dictate the entire terms of engagement - we need to bring “burning the whole thing down and starting over” into the list of options under consideration. It’s the only way to bring Disney back to the bargaining table, at minimum.

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  • BoulevardBlvd@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why on earth does every interpretation you have start with the assumption that people advocating for the destruction of IP are not also simultaneously arguing for the destruction of any company who could find a workaround? You’re approaching this from the silliest angle ever. The person you’re arguing against doesn’t exist. Anyone who is truely against IP also wants any company who is using currently profiting off of IP to be destroyed along with it

    It’s such a weird take. Also, “creator” shouldn’t be a job. Nothing that isn’t critical to human survival should be part of the monetary system. Art should only exist for arts sake and everyone should be afforded enough time to pursue it fully without worrying about survival

    No IP + universal income is the only moral way forward

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  • Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I believe it would be darker than mere loopholes. Corporations would probably both protect their own IP and steal each others’ IP through militant means. Like, Cyberpunk 2077 could become reality.

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    • BoulevardBlvd@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No. Militant means aren’t needed when no IP exists, especially when we use the same force we’re discussing to enforce the “no IP” issue to enforce the “not trade secrets” rider that goes along with it. IP is a blight and are shouldn’t be a job. The commercialization of art is forcing you to excuse millions of preventable deaths because you don’t also want to address the issue that we allow people to work far longer per week than is natural or right. If you were still surviving on 20hrs of labor a week like all of humanity did pre capitalism, you wouldn’t be bitching so much about your art being stolen because art would return to a leisure pursuit for you where it should be.

      You’re being fucked so hard you’ve completely lost sight of what’s important and it’s allowing you to justify genocide by withholding access to lifesaving drugs because you want to make money off a drawing

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• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  voiding all IP law would literally bankrupt the entire media industry, crashing tens if not hundreds of billions out of the industry practically overnight.

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