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When you talk about government solutions, inevitabley, you talk about command economy insitutions that have to determine calculations that affect every single area of the economy. Even if it can gather the informations it needed to do the calculation, it must understand all the consequences that will happen when they decide whether to grant a patent.

How long the copyright term should last? What is the unintended consequences? What kind of artistic work will emerge? What resource will need to be allocated to this sector of the economy? Will it really satisfy the consumers? Is there enough supply for the demand in the right time?

This is not a mere "complex problem", my friend. It is an espitemology problem.

When I said the solution is to remove copyright, I don't say this as a mere naive solution.

It is reached by my conclusion that the regulatory agencies cannot calculate, therefore it cannot calculate how long copyright should exists or it should at all. What they relies on is called statistics but it is inferior to the profit and loss check and balance that exists in the market. Without those profit and loss, they do not know if a particular solution or implementation is profitable to society at all. They are not accountable to the market at large because it is largely immaterial to their nature as a political machinery.

There's more to what I have to said(including emperical evidence as well my reasoning behind this), but I think it will turn into some half-ass super long eassy if I keep on talking.

For example, a programmer may spend weeks writing a particular feature. These day, it only take a git clone for somebody to make a few new features and called it a competing software project to the original. With clever marketing, he might be able to overtake the original project. Obviously that often does not happen in reality, as the original project keep some of the momentum and the knowledgebase that come with working on the project for years.

Even though there's no money spent, time is spent. These time represent lost economic opportunity.

However, it does not follows that there is no enormous economic gain for the first-mover in the free market in the absence of limitation on copying. Indeed, there are everyday examples like techdirt.com(often copied, with no attribution), Wikipedia, RedHat, and more that continues to defy your assertions everyday.

The idea that people who have spent enormous amount of capitals and time will be gauranteed to lose out if there is no monopoly mechanism to protect their work does not simply folllow.

There are many factors to consider such as how enlightened the big guys are, how fast they can move, how big is the first-mover advantage, how improtant reputation is to consumers. Some of these aspects cannot be easily copied.