Copyright was to prevent unscrupulous printers from making copies of an author’s works without paying them. So basically a sort of market control to encourage writing. Now most copyright is owned by big companies, and the very biggest companies (AI giants) just ignore copyright and have no penalties.
(I know copyright is not the same as patent, I just thought that I’d mention this anyway!)
Copyright was to prevent unscrupulous printers from making copies of an author’s works without paying them. So basically a sort of market control to encourage writing. Now most copyright is owned by big companies, and the very biggest companies (AI giants) just ignore copyright and have no penalties.
(I know copyright is not the same as patent, I just thought that I’d mention this anyway!)