Copyright is useful for when you're protecting intellectual property from being stolen by big corporations as a smaller business or private citizen. It's actually the original intent for why it exists in the first place. The problem is that it's rarely used that way and is instead used by big corporations as a battering ram to extract as much wealth as possible from the ones below them.

[–] Facni@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

(...) protecting intellectual property from being stolen by big corporations as a smaller business or private citizen. It’s actually the original intent for why it exists.

Let me discern with you with this. Copyright actually started as a way for censorship, control and profit.

History of Copyright https://falkvinge.net/2011/02/01/history-of-copyright-part-1-black-death/

Also, trial fees are usually unaffordable for smaller business or citizens in most of the world. Corporations employ different strategies when using "someone else's intellectual property" to avoid problems or persue their suers, and usually get away with it.

Piracy is for Trillion Dollar Companies | Gamer Nexus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdtBgB7iS8c