I have a interest in Copyright for a number of reasons. Folks who work with their brains and their hearts rather than their backs have an opportunity to earn a living. My fond dream of working in my bathrobe at the computer and watching the money roll in, still eludes me.
However Copyright has been mangled and perverted beyond reason. I am not a lawyer, so a lot of issues surrounding Copyright seem to be some much noise, more so due to my ignorance of legal terminology rather than the folks who are lawyers who do post about Copyright.
Let me introduce you to William Patry
William Patry
Senior Copyright Counsel, Google Inc. Formerly copyright counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, formerly Policy Planning Advisor to the Register of Copyrights, formerly Law Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; author of numerous treatises and articles (including one on fair use with Judge Richard Posner), including the new 7 volume treatise on "Patry on Copyright".
Here is a gentleman who knows Copyright and as Senior Copyright Counsel at Google is up to his neck in current Copyright issues and writes very well.