&gt;Are you honestly saying that fashion, choreography, dance and cooking is void of original unique things? That they lack creativity? Are you saying that nobody produces automobiles because they don&#x27;t have a greater incentive of protections?<p>No, I&#x27;m not saying that. I&#x27;m saying text is different. It&#x27;s far simpler to replicate text than a dance.<p>I&#x27;m not saying no text works will get produced without copyright. Just that a lot of things we take for granted or even things that are free now actually depend on copyright as part of their creation.