Tycoon Elon Musk is no longer the richest person in the world, a title he has managed to hold for nearly a year. It was Larry Ellison, co-founder of the software company Oracle, who, after his company's shares soared 42% on the stock market on Wednesday, has snatched Musk's throne. The 81-year-old Oracle chairman had held second place since Tuesday, when he surpassed Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) in the ranking.

David Bellos acknowledges that if he were to die today, the ideas in his book would still be protected for another seventy years, during which the publisher and his heirs will continue to exploit an essay that criticizes, precisely, the speculative drift of copyright. Copyright, the industry that moves the world (Peninsula, 2025), this professor of French and comparative literature at Princeton University analyzes with the intellectual property lawyer Alexandre Montagu how this concept has ended up becoming a tool that benefits a few large multinationals and curbs the creativity it promised to defend.