At least in the United States, copyright has existed since the founding of the country, and the Constitution explicitly grants Congress the authority to regulat

At least in the United States, copyright has existed since the founding of the country, and the Constitution explicitly grants Congress the authority to regulate it. It’s not as recent as you make it out to be, and it’s not going away anytime soon. To the extent that there is a problem to be solved here, it must be solved within the context of copyright law.