Copyright was literally invented because its cheap and easy to copy information (ie: Printing Press).

When copies are easy, you screw over the original artist. A large scale regulation of copies must be enforced by the central authorities to make sure small artists get the payments that they deserve. It doesn't matter if you use a printing press, a xerox machine, a photograph, a phonograph, a record, a CD-ROM copy, a tape recorder, or the newest and fanciest AI to copy someone's work. Its a copy, and therefore under the copyright regulations.