Copyright exists to formulate art[1] as capital. Let's take a step back and recognize this for what it is - juridification - the replacement of social relation

Copyright exists to formulate art[1] as capital. Let's take a step back and recognize this for what it is - juridification - the replacement of social relations with legally enforced economic relations. It assumes, incorrectly, that everything made by people is subject to exchange. It's not, and for the most part, that's not how artists themselves conceive of art. The artist community mostly operates on attribution. That is, influences are appropriately stated and attribution is the social currency. Unattributed works violate social norms. The problem is when these social relations are codified as economic relations. It's weird, like when Milton Friedman argued that children owe their parents for raising them[3]. As much as some people believe that this would imply the creation of rights, it misses the point. Freedom to choose does not include freedom from having to choose. The infinite variety of rich human relations are flattened into one dimension - economic. That erases what's most important to the human experience. 1. Insomuch as art is literary, musical, or artistic work 2. https://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/research/publications/arena-working-papers/2001-2010/2005/wp05_14.pdf https://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/research/publications/ar... 3. https://periferiaactiva.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/free-to-choose_-a-personal-statement.pdf https://periferiaactiva.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/201...