Copyright is a way to encourage the production of new culture. Even if it is abused it doesn't remove all of its merits. Countries with weak copyright laws do produce or export content and are barely heard of and the reason why is not hard to deduce: all their top talents can't live out of what they produce and therefore go elsewhere.
If you really want to go the deconstruction route, laws are unnatural but murder and assault are found in nature everywhere and therefore we're all doing it wrong. Now if you excuse me I have to take care of my collection of scalps /s.
>Copyright is a way to encourage the production of new culture.
Perhaps it just was? Things evolved. Digital tools now make everyone face the law that was invented for publishers while not every person is even aware about publishing nor wish to deal with it.
People simply try to express themselves and punished for that like they are criminals. I do not think this is a way to encourage the production of new culture today.
From encouraging tool in the past as it perhaps was today it become a tool for opression of any form of self-expression because the environment has changed. Now it does exactly the opposite of what it suppose to do.
>Now if you excuse me I have to take care of my collection of scalps
While you take care of your collection of scalps please notice how valuable such activity was back then and how useless it is now.
You basically use one single anecdote while YouTube has literally made more millionaires among independent content creator than mainstream TV did in all its existence. The reason they can produce the content they do is that they can take have copyright protecting their work. The notion that copyright is "a tool for oppression of any form of self-expression" is false just on its face.
And if it weren't for for copyright most of programmers wouldn't have a decent salary and open source projects would have less protection.
There are certainly reforms needed in IP, but abolishing it completely is just throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
If you really want to go the deconstruction route, laws are unnatural but murder and assault are found in nature everywhere and therefore we're all doing it wrong. Now if you excuse me I have to take care of my collection of scalps /s.