I write books. I publish the contents for free online, too.<p>But I still want copyright. If there were none, someone else could take my work, attribute it, put it on some SEO&#x27;d site and outrank me.<p>What recourse would I have? Very few people are going to find the original source, search it, get past the SEO and find my site.<p>And zero readers have commissioned a work. I make money, but not that way.<p>Trust me, copyright isn&#x27;t just for fatcats. Though I suspect it&#x27;s mostly fatcats who propose unreasonable applications of copyright.