Monopolistic copyright abuse by rights purchasers not necesarily authorial rights are the issue. The GPL depends on copyright to protect programmers freedoms &

Monopolistic copyright abuse by rights purchasers not necesarily authorial rights are the issue. The GPL depends on copyright to protect programmers freedoms & the public domain from appropriation. Is this a technologic or moral problem and can laws solve it ? Is easy to feel that the issue is artists should be paid, but if one is poor then access to culture and information can be simply unaffordable. Everyone listens to more music than they can buy. Truefans moreso. For most artists obscurity is the issue and realistically the big studios/ labels steal more from artists than anyone. A tricky moral issue that could trivially be solved with strong government and enforced licenses like they did for radio & libraries. Just like artists get paid when the radio plays a song, it should be the same for sharing, remixing & mashups. But lobbies legislate these issues, so the monopoly of ludditism prevails. IMHO false scarcity of knowledge is immoral and unnecessary and if we ever going to get off planet before a meteor hits we must advance beyond the Status Quo.