Besides the unfairly long duration of protection, intellectual property also is unfairly used to squash small firms via frivolous lawsuits.

I won't use an argument in favor of AI training here because AI can probably still be trained by fair-use information extraction from copyrighted works.

Without copyright, we can return to a patronage based system. Both rich and poor consumers gladly offer proportional patronage for authors they truly believe in.

Humanity will progress just fine via its scientific works which don't really require a copyright. Arxiv proves it.

The cost imposed by GPL not working will be negligible compared to the benefit of free use.