I hold neither of those opinions. My take is that agricultural civilization is being digested by technocapital and we're all along for the ride.

That said, the application of copyright to text, vs, code, vs images, has salient differences. The concept of plagiarism in visual artwork exists by analogy, but it's hard to call it coherent.

Music is somewhere in the middle, people have sued successfully over melody and hooks.

There are things like characters in animation, it's not unheard of, but the balance is more on the side of "great artists steal".