[rayiner]

Your description applies precisely to a farm or vacation property too. And at least a copyrighted work is something that exists in the universe due to your parent’s effort. That farm is just some land that your parent’s predecessor stole from the Indians. The government helped someone enclose land that had not existed as private property before, helped defend it by driving out the Indians, and then gave legal protection to the chain of transactions that led to you inheriting it. That’s a government monopoly as much as any copyright.

[throwaway2048]

I think thats too general of a statement, plenty of people take issue with inherited wealth. The USA for a long time had extremely steep inheritance taxes for instance.