I don’t believe in intellectual property, as a concept. If something is property, it’s property in perpetuity; it doesn’t stop being property after a government-defined time (or worse, become not-property and then become property again, as in some of the Soviet works). That said, in an age where government cut special deals with all and sundry, a special privilege to control the revenue stream from my work seems fair to me, and I respect that privilege given to other creators as well. That may well be intellectually bankrupt. But I’d rather be intellectually bankrupt than literally bankrupt.