Let's not kid ourselves that the copyright is stopping mega corporations from stealing your github code.

What's stopping them from hiring an engineer that basically rewrites your code? No one would ever know.

Copyleft enforcement is laughable at best and thats with legitimate non profits working on it (like FSF) and that's when it comes to direct library use without modifications and there's basically no history of prosecution or penalties for partial code copying (nor that there should be imo) that's even when 1:1 code has been found!

I feel like copyright has been doing very little in modern age and have yet to see any science that contradicts my opinion here. Most copyright holders (like high 90%) are mega corporations like ghetty images that hardly contribute back to the society.

Weakening copyright is a win

it definitely is, tho.

of course they could steal your code, but you could steal theirs. you could steal their software. you could steal their paywalled articles. you could steal all those things that are affected by artificial scarcity. They have much more to loose if copyright gets abolished.

In an ideal world, I'd make copyright to be 5 years for individuals and abolished for corporations. But the world is far from ideal and individuals have much to win if copyright gets abolished as a whole.

Science and the arts existed just fine without Intellectual Property. Abolishing copyright would be a huge win for society as a whole and a minor loss to corporations.