Makes you sound like a socialist there boy.

Is it a binary answer to the question? No. 1. China wants to grow, build, raise its peopleâ(TM)s standard of living (I know, this is arbitrary) 2. China is a threat to the current political norm and will destroy the status quo (I know this is also arbitrary) So... pick your poison. And this is, by now a very well trodden path of globalised angst, accept a race to the bottom fo price or live with the higher prices of local manufacture. The ethics question is banal and hides a more insipid agenda. Stoked

...I'm always on the lookout for brains! Joking aside, the requirement for people with brains lives on. Right now, I'd give my eye teeth for people with the 'brains' required to develop my business. And brains doesn't necessarily mean PhD level deep thinkers, it means agility and flexibility as well as a basis in the required skillsets. Experience can be gained, skills can be taught, but the raw material... Give me strong AI, then we can ditch the talk about the requirement for intelligent people. Stokey

Sadly,

Copyright holder != artist

The fact that the companies who hold the copyrights are effectively immortal (certainly longer lived than any artist) means that in X years, all copyright will be held by companies who will never have to give it up...

Prevent companies from owning the copyright...