Jack Dorsey wants to eliminate intellectual property (IP) laws altogether when artists work hard to protect their work from training AI models. Elon Musk agrees.
On Friday, the co-founders of X (and then Twitter) and Block (and then Square) posted on X, “Delete All IP Law.” X’s current leader Elon Musk commented in a mess: “I agree.”
To sum up, these two statements contain only six words, but they may have a great impact on the future of intellectual property rights in the AI era.
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Earlier Friday, Openai CEO Sam Altman spoke with Ted’s Chris Anderson at his meeting of the same name. “It looks like IP theft,” Anderson asked Altman if Openai reached a licensing agreement with Peanut Manor.
Ultraman didn’t answer this question directly [the creative spirit of humanity] Then adds: “We may really need to figure out some new model of the economics around creative output.”
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Dorsey, Musk and Ultraman’s words highlight the shared belief among tech entrepreneurs that copyright law needs to develop to illustrate the potential of generative AI. Both Openai and Google have publicly lobbyed the U.S. government to allow AI models to train protected works such as movies, articles and music. They hope this usage is a legal doctrine of legal use, which Openai calls “national security.”
But for many artists and advocacy groups, any call for “delete all IP laws” sounds like a direct attack on its rights. These artists believe that in violation of existing copyright laws, AI companies both profit from their work and compete with their work. More than 50,000 artists, including Thom Yorke, James Patterson and Julianne Moore, recently signed an open letter saying: “The AI used for unlicensed creative works to train-generated is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind these works and cannot be allowed.”
A letter signed by Hollywood creatives, including Ron Howard, Paul McCartney and Cynthia Erivo, was protesting Google and Openai lobbying to eliminate the AI industry.
“Intellectual Property Law is rooted in the U.S. Constitution and is a tool to promote creativity rather than suppress it. It ensures that those who contribute to cultural and scientific advances are recognized, protected and compensated,” Atreya Mathur, director of the Center for Legal Studies at the Arts Law Center, said in a mixable email. “Eliminating such laws will ignore very purposeful and devalue creators’ labor and rights, including those with the ability to work these technologies.”
On X, Ed Newton-Rex, CEO of Advocacy Training for Ethical Procurement Data, said: “Tech executives announced a full-scale war on creators who don’t want their lifelong work to make a profit.”
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Other X users noted that Dorsey, who became a billionaire by starting a company, did it with the help of IP protection: “Once they make bags, everyone will become a liberal in the free market.”
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As technology heavyweights seek legal blessings for AI’s “learning freedom”, they will have to face the enormousness of the entertainment industry first.
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