The idea of copyright is not that creators deserve your money, but that you, the citizen, deserve a world in which creators have incentives to create.
Unfortunately I sort of disagree. Not, of course, that copyright should ideally be about creating incentives for invention. But that, in reality, copyright is whatever the people who control copyright say it is. It seems to me that "creators deserving your money" and "citizens deserving a world in which creators have the incentive to create" are actually the same thing framed in two very different ways. But because the value of copyright is widely (and incorrectly and not coincidentally) perceived to be about the former rather than the latter, the incentive has become to copyright as many things as possible rather than to use copyright judiciously in order to ensure that there's an optimal amount of innovation happening in the world.
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