You're looking in the wrong place to discover scarcity. Copyright law is there to prevent real scarcity. Without copyright law there would be no big budget or

You're looking in the wrong place to discover scarcity. Copyright law is there to prevent real scarcity. Without copyright law there would be no big budget or little budget movies, little recorded music, few books, and on and on and on. Sure, there will be a couple of beatniks who'll work night jobs as janitors to ply their trade, but the vast majority would abandon the effort. The scarcity, minus the "artificial" scarcity, would be very real.