Because you will eventually die, and after many years any claim that you lay to your intellectual property or creative output will cease to be relevant. The co

Because you will eventually die, and after many years any claim that you lay to your intellectual property or creative output will cease to be relevant. The content that we create does not exist in a vacuum- humans create for the overall good of society. Everything you see and use day-to-day is an incredible amalgamation of thoughts and ideas woven together from centuries of our past and present collective knowledge. The notion that an individual or organization can maintain exclusive control of "intellectual property" in perpetuity stands at odds with thousands of years of human history. Modern patent and copyright law seems to have forgotten this.