>usher in an internet age where everybody can access the entire corpus of evolved knowledge
We have had that for decades and everything is going to shit. People now just reject facts.
right, because before copyright laws nobody ever created anything...
If this take is serious, I can confidently tell you: for many professional artists, it's incorrect.
I'm sure you didn't look at my profile and don't know my background, but I'm a professional bluegrass musician.
Believe me when I tell you: few of us believe that 'intellectual property' is designed to help us make a living. And we're happy to see it go. Copy my music all you want - that's half the point.
Creativity, especially in traditional arts, does not benefit from state intervention or shoehorning property concepts into our work.
People consuming and copying your work means you are making a cultural impact
You think the only reason to create anything is to profit?