All intellectual property law is a tradeoff between efficiency and monetizability. It would be a huge productivity booster to copy/paste source code wholesale a

All intellectual property law is a tradeoff between efficiency and monetizability. It would be a huge productivity booster to copy/paste source code wholesale as well. Or to implement existing patents instead of having to work around them. But then the market for software would look very different than it does today. If that's the future people want, that's fine - but everyone should play by the same rules.