alt Hacker NewsThis is a tiresome and well trod road.
The fact of the matter is that for profit corporations consumed the sum knowledge of mankind with the intent to make money on it by encoding it into a larger and better organized corpus of knowledge. They cited no sources and paid no fees (to any regular humans, at least).
They are making enormous sums of money (and burning even more, ironically) doing this.
If that doesn't violate copyright, it violates some basic principle of decency.
You are assuming intellectual property has intrinsic basis when it's at best functional not foundational. It's only useful if the net value to society is positive which is extremely dubious.