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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Not really. Copyright laws date back to 1710 with the Statute of Anne; it's only really necessary with mass-produced works. As to your examples, copyright doesn't apply to mere "influences," only explicitly direct copies. E.g. there were no copyright issues when Phillip Glass and Steve Reich were influenced by Terry Riley's "In C." However, if you made a copy of a famous painting and tried to pass it off as that work, that act (counterfeiting) has long been recognized and, to put it mildly, discouraged.
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And yet again you conflate atoms with bits. A copied painting is only discouraged because of the uniqueness and scarcity of the original object. Here's a digital copy of the Mona Lisa:
It is worth ZERO because it is infinitely copiable, there is no scarcity in reproducing this object.