One thing is clear though: copyright is the legal mechanism that allows $100 million feature films to be made today, and without it, they won't be.
This is an overreach. While you might not be able to imagine how it could be done, history shows that the market is extremely resilient and resourceful. I might agree if copyright had never existed, but now that people have a taste for such works, the market will find a way to provide them.
Game of Thrones costs $4.5 million per episode. Would HBO really make them at that cost if every one of their competitors could re-broadcast them the following day, without any kind of payment to HBO? If Target and Best Buy could just sell the DVD and Blu-ray a week later without any kind of payment to HBO?
I doubt it.
I'm not saying we won't have films -- we would -- but they wouldn't be even remotely as costly as what we have today. (Not everything one thinks that's a bad thing.)
This is an overreach. While you might not be able to imagine how it could be done, history shows that the market is extremely resilient and resourceful. I might agree if copyright had never existed, but now that people have a taste for such works, the market will find a way to provide them.