I suspect that the folks who invest hundreds of millions of dollars into production costs for a movie, rather enjoy the ability to recoup those costs by restricting access to only those who are willing to pay for the privilege.
Did you not read: "The United States government employs more knowledge workers than all other companies (see NIH, DoD, CDC, NASA, NOAA, NWS, et cetera). Everything they produce is public domain, by law. And yet, the people producing these information products still get paid!"
These laws are counterproductive and have terrible second order effects, and are cruel to everyone except a tiny % of the population, just like slavery laws.
do they have a right to enjoy being rewarded for work they didn't do but their ancestors did?
if the intention of those laws was to encourage creativity, how come they're stiffing it more than encouraging without any signs of any government trying to correct the laws to better match their purported intentions?
We should have stuck with the original 14 + 14 as laid out in the constitution.