When you are a content creator, you create ONE copy. This does not entitle you to ANY other copies.
Copying is not theft, but copyright sure is.
Copying is not theft, but copyright sure is.
Unless you are talking about serial editions, etc.
Mine has been that contributors (authors, editors, performers, researchers, etc) increase information content, complexity. Kind of a information theoretic metaphor, not that I truly grok that discipline.