The point is not that anybody should be able to ignore copyright. We live in a society where we have established a social contract and fleshed it out in the for

The point is not that anybody should be able to ignore copyright. We live in a society where we have established a social contract and fleshed it out in the form of laws, and this society will not function if everyone can just pick and choose the laws they want to respect. So if we chose to drive on the right side it would be irresponsible and quite immoral - in a consequentialist understanding - for someone to suddenly start driving on the other side of the road. But the point is, in the absolute, there is nothing morally wrong with either choice, different countries drive on different sides and both models are valid. In the same way, copyright is just a public policy choice that should be judged by its practical consequences, not an inalienable human right. The distinction is important, for example, when discussing the duration of copyright, and especially absurd extensions that could not have possibly induced any creative behavior in the long distant past, so are very bad policy choices.