>That is because it is "their" work, it is not just information.
How do they own it if they make a copy and hand over that copy in its entirety to someone else? How do they not relinquish control of that copy?
>what I view as, theft
But nobody is deprived of something when it gets copied. You can still modify your original and I can do as I please with mine.
This is how folk tales and our legends and everything propagates through society. Information, including creative work, flows freely.
>As a content creator, shouldn't I have the opportunity to give away my products (or sell them) in a way that I see fit?
Sure, that's at your discretion. But once you have given them away I don't see any natural reason why you should have any influence over what others do with a thing you have given away.
If you are a wood-carver and make an ornamental table for me, should I not be free to chop it up for firewood if I don't like it anymore just because you think it would be a violation of your work?
How do they own it if they make a copy and hand over that copy in its entirety to someone else? How do they not relinquish control of that copy?
>what I view as, theft But nobody is deprived of something when it gets copied. You can still modify your original and I can do as I please with mine.
This is how folk tales and our legends and everything propagates through society. Information, including creative work, flows freely.
>As a content creator, shouldn't I have the opportunity to give away my products (or sell them) in a way that I see fit?
Sure, that's at your discretion. But once you have given them away I don't see any natural reason why you should have any influence over what others do with a thing you have given away.
If you are a wood-carver and make an ornamental table for me, should I not be free to chop it up for firewood if I don't like it anymore just because you think it would be a violation of your work?