@Suiseiseki @feld Copyright is a racket and setup to preserve obsolete business models that date from when information needed to be contained statically on physical artifacts and couldn't be trivially altered, copied or transmitted.

It makes no sense to pay for copies rather than to pay the workers for their labor directly.

(By the way, a patronage & artisan model had already existed prior, but it was harder to exploit by mercantilist and capitalist interests.)