> This is why government regulation is terrible. Uh... The copyright system is government regulation. The government says that in exchange for producing a cr

> This is why government regulation is terrible. Uh... The copyright system is government regulation. The government says that in exchange for producing a creative work, you have exclusive rights to publish that work for a "limited" time. > bad for the families of these artists/writers, as they won’t be able to benefit from it anymore That benefit was purely due to government regulation. > Good for poor people Good for society in general IMO, because even very old works often inspire new ones. Imagine that the greek and roman pantheons were under copyright, and anyone writing about Zeus would be sued for infringement.