if you start from a principle of “property is theft” then it is easy to get from there to copyright abolition. but if you start from a principle of “labor is entitled to all it creates” i think the straightforward conclusion is that copyright is good, at least in principle.
if i write a book, and you did not write my book, then my book is more mine than yours, and copyright is the mechanism by which i am entitled to sell copies of my book and you are not. obviously under fully automated luxury gay space communism or whatever i will not need the money anyway so it won’t really matter, but here in the present, i would want to get paid for the work that i did, and if you instead get paid for the work that i did, that is bad and not good.
no i do not hate waffles: i do not think letting disney define the term of copyright is good, and i think fair use should be expanded further, and i am aware of the numerous other issues with copyright law as it currently exists.






