Should Intellectual property be abolished? (Jack Dorsey's, Musk's and others' point of view)

Yesterday evening I opened Techcrunch and the headline caught my eye:

Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’

(The original Tweet is here and you can read many opinions there.)

About a week ago people were arguing about the ownership rights of Ghibli and it seems that the discourse about what belongs to whom and who has/doesn’t have the right to what is still going on.

How do you see the protection of artwork and rights in the world of AI?

To cancel/not to cancel IP Law?

My personal take…

I don’t think IP laws are useles. I didn’t really care about these things until I took a two-semester course on copyright law in my third year of college and I started to understand that it gives value to works and the meaning of creating.

If everyone could steal what someone else had done, the original person would go hungry. (Business and art are simply two different things.) Without reward, there is often no motivation to create (and that is precisely where we trained our AI models).

While an artist creates an idea, all that is needed is a more skilled marketing person who will take it and make it visible – and what now for the original artist?

Whether someone wants to share open source code or create free licensed music is a choice. It is not a choice for someone to profit from someone else's work without permission. We have a term for it – it is called theft. (In politics, we would call it Illegal privatization)

And if we want to pretend that no one should have any rights to anything, then let’s agree that these AI companies should also give up the profit they make from the code they’ve created and through which they sell creative work. (I believe they would have strong objections to such a stance of ‘shared collective ownership’ and would start defending their own interests.)

Maybe it is time to stop asking whether copyright will survive in the AI ​​era, and start asking:

How to set it up in a way that protects those who create and, ideally, still has the motivation to create.