I wonder who will make the large investments necessary for new research if as soon as something is figured out, it is quickly copied and the investment is lost. Particularly with new drugs, etc (though the cost of new drugs hurts my family, so I’m not in favor of those expenses, but I’m grateful someone did the expensive research).
IMO that’s capitalism’s failing, not copyright’s.
If the system were different it could reward cures much more than specific drugs. In the current system almost no one is chasing simple and cheap cures because complicated patentable drugs that people use for a lifetime are far more capitalistically profitable.
(Sorry, wrong term used here: I don't mean copyright per se, instead I mean any number of intellectual property 'methods' that we currently use on this planet (siloing, patents, copyright, licensing, etc, etc))
