You're not wrong, but without copyright how do artists eat? While artists are happy to operate by attribution, commercial entities don't give a shit about such

You're not wrong, but without copyright how do artists eat? While artists are happy to operate by attribution, commercial entities don't give a shit about such things and would be happy to use or distribute popular works copyright-free without attributing anything. For example, Spotify is a terrible deal for artists, but in a copyright-free world Spotify would just pay nothing to artists - an even worse deal.