As many other comments mention, copyright is as real as contract law or money. A more correct statement with the same thrust would be "copyright is not _natura

As many other comments mention, copyright is as real as contract law or money. A more correct statement with the same thrust would be "copyright is not _natural_ -- it's an artificial, bolt-on construct." And yet lots of artificial constructs are useful for incentivizing / de-incentivizing massed behavior in a way that is maximally beneficial to all. For sure, getting it right is difficult but let's not write off all artificial constructs as worthless or impossible to get right (especially when you just have to get it right _enough_).