Comment Re:I seriously doubt copyright will die (Score 2, Insightful) 403
I and others are happy creating GPL'ed software, but we are a very small minority of people producing creative works.
Interestingly, the GPL only works because of copyright. It's the protection that copyright affords the author of the code that gives him/her the right to attach the GPL and insist on the usage that code is put to.
If copyright didn't exist, there'd be nothing to stop people taking open sources and building their own binaries and selling them binary-only unimpeded. GPL would basically equal public domain; this is not the free software movement's aim at all.
