Copyright is the right to get a return from creative work. The physical ease - or otherwise - of copying is absolutely irrelevant to this. So is scarcity. It's

Copyright is the right to get a return from creative work. The physical ease - or otherwise - of copying is absolutely irrelevant to this. So is scarcity. It's also orthogonal to the current corporate dystopia which is using monopoly power to enclose the value of individual work from the other end - precisely by inserting itself into the process of physical distribution. None of this matters if you have a true abundance economy, but we don't. Pretending we do for purely selfish reasons - "I want this, and I don't see why I should pay the creator for it" - is no different to all the other ways that employers stiff their employees. I don't mean it's analogous, I mean it's exactly the same entitled mindset which is having such a catastrophic effect on everything at the moment.