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> If you go full blyatski and outlaw personal ownership, you get Soviet Russia, a nation whose contribution to global culture has been a few ballets, some long depressing books and precisely one video game, because nobody is given incentive or even opportunity to create anything, so they don’t. To be fair, Soviet Russia probably has a bunch more stuff than that; we just don't know about it because it didn't get translated and distributed to the West. The ["Dr. Livesey Walk" meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dr-livesey-walk) is from a Soviet cartoon, for example. I can only assume artists got funded by government grants or something, IDK. It probably did result in a lot less of it being created than in the West, though. (Also, I think the ballets and books you're alluding to might've been pre-Soviet?) ---- Anyway, I completely agree that copyright and patents are a compromise, and that the pendulum has swung way too far to the side of rights-holders at the moment.