content: Tons of people. People will always create, even in the absence of financial incentive. (Fan fiction would be utterly non-existent, as one common example.) More importantly, there are very real fiscal boons for a society free of so-called Intellectual Property. There's powerful evidence that shows Germany's 19th century industrial revolution found traction due to a lack of copyright law. Consider from the article:  German authors during this period wrote ceaselessly. Around 14,000 new publications appeared in a single year in 1843. Measured against population numbers at the time, this reaches nearly today's level. The situation in England was very different. ... Indeed, only 1,000 new works appeared annually in England at that time -- 10 times fewer than in Germany -- and this was not without consequences. Höffner believes it was the chronically weak book market that caused England, the colonial power, to fritter away its head start within the span of a century, while the underdeveloped agrarian state of Germany caught up rapidly, becoming an equally developed industrial nation by 1900.