Current copyright laws need a serious pruning.
But arguments for
axing copyright just poison the well of the efforts to
prune copyright. Axing it is a political DOA, and the rhetoric and false analogies are credibility killers.
e.g., There is a continual effort to conflate "knowledge" with "work." (Because it's much easier to argue for "free knowledge" than "free fruits of Joe's labor.")
But books are works -- not just "knowledge," thoughts, or ideas, effortlessly pulled out of the producer's ear with Dumbledore's wand.
They are developed, constructed, and produced, through time and energy. Work.
I too want everyone to be able to read the great works. I'd just much rather achieve that simply and fairly, by limiting the copyright terms and making currently-copyrighted works available in libraries, etc.