Part one

Copyright is now, actually always was, a load of crap.

Since an individual is simply a product of factors completely outside of their control, anything they create is a product of factors outside of their control. These factors include the entirety of human history, genetics, luck and the physical arrangement of the Universe throughout the life of the individual.

We, and the things we do, are distillations of the reality that surrounds in space and time. Depending on your views on free will, this places severe limits on the amount of credit an individual can take for anything they do - ranging from almost none, to absolutely none at all. The credit belongs to everybody or nobody. Or, if you prefer a softer statement, ownership of a creative work should be distributed beyond the author, becoming the property of the culture that created it.

Hence, acquiring the 'rights' to a particular work in perpetuity amounts to theft - especially where this ownership is used to restrict access to it.