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I like to be a bit "realpolitik" about it.
The original concept made sense under a capitalist mode of production, if you are the inventor of some idea you should essentially have "dibs" on making money off it for a certain duration of time before people can just copy your work and sell it as their won. And yeah I see why that original model did benefit artists cuz it would suck if you wrote a cool novel that was selling well but then some guy CTRL+C CTRL+V'd it into another doc and changed the title and sold it for $5 less than your own copy.
But obviously it pretty quickly got abused with the length of that period of "dibs" getting extended to essentially forever and being mostly used by massive corporations to try and demand everyone pay them for fucking everything.
Ideally under FALGSC none of this shit would matter, you could just create stuff, and the only issue would be proper crediting of work since nobody would care about profit. But I guess as long as we live in a world where people get paid for shit and we'd like artists to get paid sometimes having some better version of copyright exist may be good.