Short answer: yes. Longer answer: They've half-absorbed the idea of collectivisation of property, without understanding how it actually works or what is involved in the process. Their thinking begins and ends at "I want it so it must happen", because they're still intellectual children. The tranch is a perfect demonstration of this in action. They also think that declaration makes things real, in accordance with their belief that they can call themselves true and honest women, or that repetition of the desired outcome can supplant reality. This is why they like to engage in "demand" campaigns, believing that simply stating things to be facts will make it so, and engage in astroturfing to generate a false consensus around their preferred "facts". The "hatsune miku made this" trends on twitter were a partially humorous, partially serious example of this; they tried to erase the name of certain creators, and break the link between those creators and their creations, by flooding online spaces with their own "truth", in the belief that it would deny the creators mindshare. It was a very crude and inept attempt at gaslighting. The other common belief seems to be that, because Rowling assigned certain distributive and franchise rights to Universal, who have sub-let those rights to other companies for particular media, that Universal can unilaterally declare themselves sole owners of her property and then give it to the "fans". There are a number of additional steps that they're glossing over with this - Universal would have to sincerely agree with their beliefs, to the point that it voluntarily acts against its own interests by giving up those newly-seized rights and all of the income it would generate. It would then have to fend off the inevitable lawsuits from its shareholders, from Rowling, from mutliple national governments, and from every other franchisee to which it had previously contracted to assign limited rights, as well losing the rights every other property it has franchised. None of it makes sense in the real world. They have - again - half-absorbed certain ideas from past revolutionary societies and collectivist ideologies, but haven't understood them beyond "I get to take what I want". Even then, they only think far enough to want the things that are sufficiently woke, corporate-produced commodity consumer products. Collectivised farming? Who needs that, when food comes to your door in boxes? Second short answer: they're fucking idiots.
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