You are right, it is a legal fiction, but so is everything else. It was created by congress to prop up the industry of creating more art. Most people do believ

You are right, it is a legal fiction, but so is everything else. It was created by congress to prop up the industry of creating more art. Most people do believe in copyright, but that doesn't mean they don't like getting something for free. I personally think copyright lengths are too long, but many things we have today would not have been created without copyrights.