The way I see it, which is potentially overly naive, there are two trains of thought that make sense to me. Either you believe that it is more valuable for hum

The way I see it, which is potentially overly naive, there are two trains of thought that make sense to me. Either you believe that it is more valuable for humans to compete with each other for technological advances to sell them as a product in the free market. These people would probably argue that the ability to sell your idea in a market with some amount of anti-competitor protection is what spurs people to make these advancements at all. Or you believe that it is more valuable for humans to collaborate and build off of each other's ideas, which copyrights and similar legal protection concepts stifle. These people probably believe that their argument prevails over the previous camp's argument, or they may even believe that people would ultimately advance technology without copyright protections anyway. Looking at it in one of those two ways, it seems pretty clear how one could draw the conclusion that copyrighting holds back humanity.