GrapheneOS argues that copyright law causes more harm than benefit and should be abolished. The project contends that copyright fails to protect individuals and small businesses in practice, instead serving as a weapon for large corporations to maintain monopolies. It highlights how copyright is abused to remove non-infringing content and restrict users' rights to use, repair, modify, and backup their own property.

GrapheneOS notes that large corporations receiving special exceptions from copyright law is not a new phenomenon beginning with LLMs.