Nobody would create if they couldn't guarantee they had sole rights to that creation.
Proof: Before we had copyrights, innovation was close to zero, almost anything that was invented was done in isolation and heavily guarded, leading to little improvement.
I'll take a copyright system with some abusers over an environment where anything can be stolen anytime so there's no incentive to create any day.
Nobody would create if they couldn't guarantee they had sole rights to that creation.
Proof: Before we had copyrights, innovation was close to zero, almost anything that was invented was done in isolation and heavily guarded, leading to little improvement.
I'll take a copyright system with some abusers over an environment where anything can be stolen anytime so there's no incentive to create any day.