Innovation is defined as taking an existing idea and improving it. Copyright inhibits innovation by putting up legal barriers to innovation. This is the main

Innovation is defined as taking an existing idea and improving it. Copyright inhibits innovation by putting up legal barriers to innovation. This is the main reason why copyright is bad for innovation. Making original ideas is a good thing, but improving existing ideas is much more common, and useful. Copyright fails to help this, and indeed places significant blocks to this.