The problem is the imbalance, not the idea of protection. We don't jump to laissez faire legislation because regulatory capture exists. It makes good sense to give legal rights to individual creators for their works so they can choose whether to seek to monetize them or make them freely available, at least until their death. If you wrote a book/song/program/etc. I want you to have the authority to make that determination for your creation, and in a system of person vs person, while it's not a given that both people would enter litigation as equals, it would at least be more likely than when one of the 'people' is a multi-million dollar VC-funded company. If companies have no personhood, they cannot own IP from creation to the end of the universe. No corp personhood would also limit their ability in many jurisdictions to enact lobbying, regulatory capture, and various other chicanery. I'm not saying it'd be easy but it would be effective and a solid step in the right direction, where eliminating IP would only enable further corporate abuse.