When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.
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I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.
The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.
Big Tech's nonchalance about copyright violation tramples over people like my wife and me, who strive to make a living in the great tradition of the creative realm.
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.
In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.
It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
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