Good authors can, among other things, be paid by benefactors and by those who want first access to the material.
There are a bunch of programmers who create license-free programs, partly voluntarily and often because they receive grants from both companies and benefactors.
Intellectual property is completely unnecessary and leads to enormous resource waste and misallocation of scarce economic resources, including far too many who believe they can get rich by writing books.  

 thank you for that food for thought