To stick down the idea of copying as a universal good is to oversimplify things just as much as to insist than an author has an infinite moral right to make co

To stick down the idea of copying as a universal good is to oversimplify things just as much as to insist than an author has an infinite moral right to make completely unrestrained profit from the things they derive from society for the rest of time. It's an appealing notion, copying sounds fine when you phrase it as an act of love, and within certain limits; fan works and the like; it is. However, if you have unrestrained copying then people will copy in a predatory manner as well. For instance, by aggregating your work and others work through a portal so that you never see any advantage from it - or by putting your work into something that has a much greater cultural presence and effectively taking ownership of it.