Copyright law was meant to be a common sense approach to assigning ownership to created works. You could not claim ownership of an idea, but you could claim ownership of the products you made from that idea. It was fair and it was encouraging.

These days... Copyright law has become this ungainly creature -- lacking direction, blind, deaf, alive while seeming like it should have died long ago. Yet it is still swift and deadly, constantly hunting -- poorly picking fights. It is a mutated force of nature that lacks coherent form or purpose due to having too many masters picking and tweaking it's carcass. It serves the will of only the wealthy masters, having long since left the hands of content creators. And yet, it is too destructive -- burning the consumers those same masters wish to seduce. Where will it end? Neither master nor creature have any common sense...

We must breed a new creature -- one that can kill off the old.