Why are (some?) Communists against IP and copyright law?
I’ve seen this online in some spaces but it doesn’t make much sense to me.
For jewelers, for example, I thought that communism generally says that: when they sell their jewelry, they should get paid for the materials and any of the surplus value generated from the sale. When a capitalist creates a factory for jewelry, they take that surplus value away from the jeweler, and that’s bad, and so on…
When we talk about an artist, or maybe a writer more specifically, writes a book, wouldn’t the destruction of IP law prevent the writer from getting any surplus value from their efforts if some one could copy the transcript and print it on their own terms?
Does it have to do with the belief that creative works don’t have any material value? Or that art shouldn’t be commodified? If this is true, does that mean no person should/can be able to persue a career as a full-time artist?