I understand it as the protection of obsolete business models.

[hunter]

This lawsuit is part of the process, of course.

Manufacturing superstar authors, musicians, actors, and athletes has always been a dirty business.

These large corporations profit most in the culling ( euphemistically the "curation" ) of art, not in the promotion of art, and it's all at the expense of smaller and vastly more important "niche" markets where the actual curation takes place.

So here's a question: How many high school students hoping to play in the NFL someday have permanently damaged their bodies and their minds seeking this illusion of glory? I'm not picking on the NFL in particular, I have a similarly low opinion of the Olympics, another fundamentally corrupt institution.

The other arts are little different. Big business corrupts everything it touches. When a small curator becomes a huge curator it implodes, becoming a machine that spews its crap everywhere.

There are musicians on YouTube who are better than the Beatles, who don't exude that toxic misogynistic 'sixties vibe. Many of them have Patreon accounts, and you can even watch them live in small venues.

There are many authors better than John Grisham, oh so many...

I'll leave you with another thought. How can authors writing in the Icelandic language possibly support themselves? Is it possible to be a "real" author if you only write in Icelandic?

Remarkably people in Iceland are among the most literate people on earth.

I respect copyrights. That doesn't mean I have to buy anyone's crap.