The intellectual objection I have to the argument you and others make on this subject is inconsistency. If you accept the modern world economy in which one can buy and sell bets on the gradients of price changes of options to purchase shares of companies that exist only to trade similar rights as "property" and where the economic value of such unfair and arbitrary "things" as holding an EU passport or a collective bargaining agreement are as solid as gold coins, then it is inconsistent to find rights to performance or inventions unethical.
The political objection is that your program essentially makes writers, musicians, inventors, and others into wage employees of publishers and distributors. I think that Merck should have to pay royalties to Amazonian indian tribes who discover medical herbs and Siemens should have to pay royalties to Serbian inventors who figure out how to make motors run on alternating current and that Yo Yo Ma should be able to live on royalties instead of following the tradition of begging royalty.
The intellectual objection I have to the argument you and others make on this subject is inconsistency.
This is a strawman but you are probably not aware of it. There is no "the argument you and others make on this subject" against IP as well as there is no "the argument you and others make on this subject" pro IP.
If I am inconsistent with others is of little concern to me. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
If I eat your apple, you don't have any apple left.
If I copy your song or invention, you still have it.
If your read the USA constitution you'll see that IP is clearly defined as optional, IP may be created by congress only under certain condition, that is to say increase progress.
And the KSR ruling is clear on it: if the patent regime does not promote progress, it is unconstitutionnal in the USA period. Same thing for copyright.