> Without any forms of copyright, there would be an explosion in art, science and business... but mostly small firms/independend people would benefit from it.

> Without any forms of copyright, there would be an explosion in art, science and business... but mostly small firms/independend people would benefit from it. Where did you get that idea? That seems to me to be the opposite of the truth. In most cases of media (music, books, video games) there's an extreme exponential notion of success. So if copyright vanished, the studio making Angry Birds will probably be fine - after all, Angry Birds sold like a bazillion copies. If only some small percentage of those actually earned them money (because people say downloaded copies), they'd still be fine. However the studio that has dozens of small successes, each of which sold a tiny number of copies, really can't afford to only make a small percentage of the money they really made. Similarly, authors who aren't Stephen King, but rely on a steady stream of mildly-successful works, would no longer be able to be authors for a living.