You fit the definition of a philistine - negating originality in the arts. And your analogy doesn’t work, even on your own terms - houses are built based on what was done before, yet houses and land are passed down from generation to generation in perpetuity.
As for taxes, the copyright would be like an heirloom - one doesn’t pay yearly taxes on the jewelry, furniture, paintings or books one has inherited from a grandmother.
An heirloom brooch,book, or chair isn’t a constant source of revenue like a copyright or patent! So your analogy fails .And just sitting on a copyright or patent so no one can benefit is pointless,if not morally wrong.
Houses are passed down with the government collecting taxes every year and often more taxes when the house is passed down.
So I suppose the founders of this nation were philistines and believers in forced sharing ,because,after all, LIMITED time for patents and copyrights was the norm from 1787 until 1976 !By the way we have had forced sharing from the beginning of civilization;it is usually referred to as taxes.
As for a great work being ruined by being turned into a Disney production;NEWS flash ,Disney feared loss of revenue when all their “great works” became public domain as EVERY OTHER work had been doing for centuries.
I guess you think we should still be paying royalties to the descendants of the first man to put a wheel on an axle ?
Too many “artists” over-rate their own importance to the world.
As for Hatch ,I wish he had been more successful as n artist so he would not be a Senator!
And too bad more people didn’t see that Hitler became a successful painter.
THese frustrated artists telling the rest of us how to live are a pain!