Well it's nice to see the whole concept of IP finally collapsing as it should.
"People with money" are a crucial milestone, because they were the ones who were actually actively benefiting from and upholding this institution.
edit: if we let them, they're just going to merge with the media companies and cross-license to each other.
One could point out China, who totally has so much respect for someone's notion of legality. Or France that had never cared for software patents. Or one could point out good old pirates, who were always relatively successful at giving a middle finger to the notion of "intellectual property". "Billionaires" are simply another straw, peculiar only in the sense that they were the pillar upholding this institution.
And speaking of "not legislatively, but judges": 1. Not every country has a common law legal system 2. Just take a look at Japan's AI legislations.