The regulation of intellectual property has become a frequent and difficult question since the beginning of the 20th Century. While the legal regulation of copyright was a big step for the development of press, philosophy, and art in general, especially literature, there is a big difference between the ideas and disputes that marked the period of the first legal reforms and those that transpired with the ongoing social and technological development. The flourishing economy, especially the emergence and swift growth of the entertainment industry in the second half of the 20th Century and the technological innovations that are inseparable from it made the question of profit an essential part of the discussion of intellectual property. Creative content (at least the content within the entertainment industry) carried a possibility of profit that was unimaginable until that point, and that profit came with a network of actors ready to invest in such a possibility. This new industry highlighted the need for the author’s protection against publishers and other mediators. On the other hand, the emergence of the internet and digital technology further accelerated and strengthened previous tendencies of growth, while their discovery and implementation became closely related to the idea of liberal democracy as a political system. And while discussions about freedom of expression and the free exchange of information were very much present in society, the new environment frequently drove these discussions to the forefront of the public sphere and rearranged its participants into new relations of power. In the contemporary environment the implementation of legal regulations of intellectual property was experienced by some actors as a restriction of freedom and the same sentiment was often shared by the authors themselves. In this paper, we will try to give a theoretical overview of this phenomenon of “labeling” copyright as censorship and analyze the perception of authors and content users towards the legal regulations.