Wouldn't that open up another problem with people who will exploit no copyright laws, and just steal other peoples ideas?
The idea that we should tolerate "ownership" of ideas in the information age shows just how insidious and malignant the profit motive has grown in our time. We shouldn't even tolerate ownership of bits of earth, let alone
ideas.
Yes, most of them are poor, and now you want to take away their right to make money from their work.
Or we could provide decent baseline food, shelter, healthcare, and education to all human beings as a birthright. What would art look like in a world where potential artists
aren't forced to work soul-crushing jobs just to survive, their suffering often robbing them of creativity and passion?
And if you really want to see the majority of songs unsung and books unwritten, take away any chance for people to make a living doing it.
You're defending the same capitalism that has systematically defunded the arts over the course of the past three decades, the same system which has made common the use of the phrase "starving artist", the same culture which
isn't disgusted by the ubiquity of that phrase.