>The overwhelming majority of copyright benefit (in dollars) goes to "others who are rich enough to exploit" the system // Yes, in the copyright system we _hav

>The overwhelming majority of copyright benefit (in dollars) goes to "others who are rich enough to exploit" the system // Yes, in the copyright system we _have_ in USA/Europe (probably globally). But fundamentally copyright was birthed out of protecting creators of works (authors of books in the case of Queen Anne's Statute). Capitalism is fundamentally corrupting of every system, but that doesn't mean the "core" of the underlying system was bad -- that is all I argue for here, that a just copyright system that actually encourages sharing of works could exist, modelled on the fundamental core of copyright which is protecting authors/creators from predatory industries and maintaining things such as right of authorship (being acknowledged as author).