It may be true that you're not a fan of copyright, but I'm not sure you know enough about copyright to have a properly informed opinion about an aspect like this.
For what it's worth, the transferability of copyrights was established in the 19th century to enable to creation and publication of encyclopedias. By allowing writers to transfer their copyrights to publishers, publishers could (a) aggregate a number of entries into a new type of work and (b) produce new editions of that work without having to submit to extortionate negotiating situations with writers who could use their control of one (possibly unchanged) part of the work to block development of the rest.
This principle underlies the genesis of the extensively collaborative forms of expression that defined culture in the 20th century, from recorded symphonies, to radio plays, televised broadcasts, and or course, the cinema. Indeed, it creates an entirely new class of authors (e.g. cinematographers and film editors) whose own work depends on massively collaborative forms of creation.
There are many, many reasons to be critical of the copyright system. But the basic transferability of copyrights isn't one of them.
For what it's worth, the transferability of copyrights was established in the 19th century to enable to creation and publication of encyclopedias. By allowing writers to transfer their copyrights to publishers, publishers could (a) aggregate a number of entries into a new type of work and (b) produce new editions of that work without having to submit to extortionate negotiating situations with writers who could use their control of one (possibly unchanged) part of the work to block development of the rest.
This principle underlies the genesis of the extensively collaborative forms of expression that defined culture in the 20th century, from recorded symphonies, to radio plays, televised broadcasts, and or course, the cinema. Indeed, it creates an entirely new class of authors (e.g. cinematographers and film editors) whose own work depends on massively collaborative forms of creation.
There are many, many reasons to be critical of the copyright system. But the basic transferability of copyrights isn't one of them.