Professor of Law, Jan Litman, from the University of Michigan makes a proposal to reform outdated copyright law:
Her entire reform proposal is based on a few key principles: returning power to both creators and consumers, radically simplifying the law so that people can understand it without a lawyer, and beating the record companies, publishers, and movie studios about the head with a shovel.
Anyone who describes current copyright law as “swollen, barnacle-encrusted collection of incomprehensible prose” has my sympathy immediately. She wants to introduce something that can be understood without hiring a lawyer and returns power content creators at the expense of ever more superfluous intermediaries. It makes sense, but has no real political or lobbying clout behind and is sadly doomed to failure.
