The practical real world beneficiaries of IP law in modern time are nigh exclusively international business conglomerates using it for rent seeking. The number of individual creatives who use the courts to enforce their copyrights as a revenue stream are drops from a spigot next to a torrential river of institutionalized copyright trolling, cross-lawsuits between dozens of lawyers from fortune 500s, and the systemic privatization of culture as a means for profit.
Whole generations have had their heritages locked up in corporate coffers for going on a century now with no end in sight, and that kind of abuse will leave lasting scars on humanity as a whole. I would anticipate historians a millennia from now might reflect on this time as having sufficient creative and intellectual death by copyright aside other calamities like global warming, exploitation of third world labor, or nuclear proliferation as the principal sins of the 20th and 21st century.
Whole generations have had their heritages locked up in corporate coffers for going on a century now with no end in sight, and that kind of abuse will leave lasting scars on humanity as a whole. I would anticipate historians a millennia from now might reflect on this time as having sufficient creative and intellectual death by copyright aside other calamities like global warming, exploitation of third world labor, or nuclear proliferation as the principal sins of the 20th and 21st century.