I don't see what creating something has to do with owning it. If I have kids, they are not my property, even though their existence entirely depends on me. The

I don't see what creating something has to do with owning it. If I have kids, they are not my property, even though their existence entirely depends on me. The whole point of copyright is that the government decided that people would be more willing to create works of value if they economically protected the creators of those works. This was designed specifically to benefit the public good at the expense of individual freedom. Copyright does nothing but restrict freedom, but it does it so that people will have an incentive to create things of public value. The free speech argument comes in whenever a content creator has the power to keep other people from saying certain things because he doesn't like them, rather than because he deserves to capitalize on the use of his content. The ideas you create don't belong to you; only the right to make money from them does.