Copyright infringement is never treated the same as property theft. In any jurisdiction. In any case, copyright was not established to help companies like War

Copyright infringement is never treated the same as property theft. In any jurisdiction. In any case, copyright was not established to help companies like Warner or Scholastic---in fact, it was originally designed to protect authors from having large corporations distribute their stuff without paying authors anything, as opposed to today's model, in which companies pay authors relatively little.