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If I write a book, I get to control if I want to write another book or not. The success of the book doesn't dictate my control over my own writing process (individual agreements not withstanding)
Copyright has for the more than the last century been established to be 50 years longer than the life of the owner, meaning copyright deliberately exists to ensure the creator retains control for their entire life (and then some)
As far as parents go, a patent is not a requirement to make a product and gives no say in your use of your widget that you have patented. If you so choose you can patent a widget and give up trade secrets in exchange for legal protection against appropriation, but that has nothing to do with control in how you operate (it only limits control in how others operate).
I can invent a widget and not patent it and I am still allowed to sell or not sell, manufacture or not, or whatever business decisions I deem important. I can keep it a trade secret and bring it with me to the grave.
All of that is completely true and also irrelevant. The point isn't the specific details, the point is the idea that "perpetual control" is not the default modus operandi of the structure of our system. As to the specific details of where that line is drawn, that's something that's up for debate. All we need as a starting point is to acknowledge that unquestioned, perpetual individual control of an entity that can create and destroy the lives of millions has at least the POTENTIAL to be a dangerous social ill, and the specific details of how we address that can come from there. If you cannot see or acknowledge that at any level, then we're not even looking at reality from the same perspective, and we're not starting from the same priors, so there's no point in discussing it any further - there's no point of agreement we'll be able to reach.