If you want to go down the route of protectionist laws you need look to further than the copyright and patent systems. Isn't that anti-free market in the same w

If you want to go down the route of protectionist laws you need look to further than the copyright and patent systems. Isn't that anti-free market in the same way accept more to the detriment of consumers as opposed to firms? It seems we live in a nation that has rules that govern our markets and everyone is fine with that, until you wish to use that very same system to protect workers in some way.