Well, eliminating copyright would also remove the copyleft portions of the GPL, which are also aimed at user freedom. I would say just removing copyright would

Well, eliminating copyright would also remove the copyleft portions of the GPL, which are also aimed at user freedom. I would say just removing copyright would not achieve the professed goals of the FSF: without the requirement to provide source code to users, user freedom is still constrained through that imbalance in power, even if they are free to modify and distribute the binaries they have however they wish.