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Interesting viewpoint. Let's take photography. When you buy a photo from me, you are not buying the copyright to the photo. Even if you pay me to take your photo...you are not getting the copyright to the photos just because you paid for them. This is true in the US.
Every now and then I'd get a client who wanted the copyright. The most I'd ever negotiate is to give them (for a price) the right to copy for personal use. But I still retained the copyright to all my work.
Buying a copy of a book does not give you the copyright to that book.
It all comes down to money. We want to protect the money making opportunities of the creator of works to encourage people to create works. Patents, copyrights and trademarks are all just different takes on the same notion. We balance the desire to protect the creator with the desire to benefit society by putting limits on patents and copyrights.
When you access, use, consume content whether physical or virtual -- without payment -- you are violating the social construct that patents, copyrights and trademarks are set up to protect.
Take music. When you listen to songs on the radio, you aren't paying royalties...but the radio station is. To cover their costs and make money the radio stations play ads. Listening to the ads is the price you pay for the music. If you record the songs off the radio so that you can listen to them without listening to the ads....you are violating that social contract (let's just use stealing).
The rest is just details. But the basic principle is easy enough to understand.
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