The system is use it or lose it (youre idea, invention)
You dont copywrite it? Someone else can take your new fab idea from you and then you cant do it. Crazy !
Was the patent originally put in to protect inventors? And then we went a little crazy with it and made it so complicated?
Lets research the history of the patent. Cant get rid of it right off, Start with Unravelling it.
As an artist all you have to do is sign your work. Boom. Copyrighted. Even then we all draw inspiration from eachother. Styles and subjects arent copywrite. Art movements are started and spread. I could go picasso or h.r. Giger style it up & so long as im not producing replicas and passing them off as theirs I'm solid!