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Originally Posted by peter09
Interesting that it does not address the issues that consumers have with these laws. For instance the growth in Licensing a product rather than owning one - with the restriction in consumer rights that it entails - and for ebooks the restrictions on usage (including transfer between devices due to normal upgrades etc).
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That's because this was a review of copyright law, and licensing has nothing to do with copyright.
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I have often wondered how a musician (and his descendants?) can earn money for many years`from 'one performance' issued on a CD - compare this to a musician in say the 18th century, and compare to the rest of us, whose creative work, once done and money earned, has gone.
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What do you mean by "the rest of us"? You are as able as anyone else to write a book, a piece of software, or a musical composition, and earn royalties from it. It's not "them and us"; it's something that's available to everyone.