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Good luck inventing or creating something that a person or corporation with more money won’t immediately copy and then push you out of the market.
Patents and copyright, as originally conceived, are the lower classes only chance to compete.
Then steal from those corporations. It's not hard. Copyright and patents were to benefit the public domain, not anything or anyone else. It does not do that. The public domain has done nothing but perish as more and more "protection" has been applied. Now it is all intellectual "property" to be owned and measured and controlled and regulated, unless you opt out of it with open source.
We have tools like the GPL and AGPL. Corporations hate those. Turns out when you start giving away and "taking", everyone benefits. Open source hasn't made the world worse the more it's been growing — maybe choosing to forgo most protections of copyright and IP is actually good. Maybe.
In a capitalist context, sure.
The idea of a socialist society is that there isn't a burning need to work beyond what's needed to keep life going. You can focus on art, or writing, or anything else creative. There's no particular need to legally protect what you create, because you're doing it for the pure enjoyment of creativity in the first place. Your livelihood isn't threatened by someone else copying it. If anything, you're delighted that someone else takes enjoyment from it.
And if someone wanted to feed your art to an AI model, that's fine, too. Who cares? That machine can't replace your personal creative drive. This is only a problem now because capitalism forces artists to make money off their art or do something else to make ends meet.