If I conflate the two, it's because big labels are generally the only ones with enough resources to enforce their copyrights. "Copyright does not give people t

If I conflate the two, it's because big labels are generally the only ones with enough resources to enforce their copyrights. "Copyright does not give people the right to get compensated for what they want to do. It compensates people if they make something that other people want to use." Fair point. But the economic argument I'm making is that copies of music, for example, is a commodity at this point, because of the ~0 marginal cost and more or less substitutable. My point is that I believe that artists will figure out how to get compensated for the contributions to society. Charging for copies isn't going to be part of it.