#5 Ask any aspiring film maker who finds it impossible to obtain the rights for a piece of music how restricted they feel.

#4 Absent copyright, everything is public domain. Everything is freely shareable.

#3 Copyrighting works for a generation doesn’t restrict the artistic expression of the artists of that generation?

#2 Globalism and the Internet creates a global arbitrage market for copyrighted content. $1 does not have the same value globally.

#1 Since corporations (content distribution and management companies) hold the lion’s share of copyrights, at the very least it helps such corporations disproportionately.

Copyright is a limited monopoly granted by a government. We should consider why government grants a limited monopoly and refrain from assuming that copyright is inherently good.