> Why have copyright at all? You need some amount of copy protection so that people/companies with large platforms can't immediately rip off independent author

> Why have copyright at all? You need some amount of copy protection so that people/companies with large platforms can't immediately rip off independent authors and sell their work before the author's version can get any word of mouth. (Where "sell" probably means "distribute with ads" since there's no copy protection.) 4-5 years of copy protection would prevent this, and that's on the very safe end.