[carpetmojo]

The important thing about copyright, to my mind, is that it represents, in an ideal world, a method of the artist/creator recieving recompense for his work/creation.
Nowadays, the copyright "battle" seems to centre more on the publisher, who now represents, in most cases, the power behind the finances of the market, with prime buyers (retailers of all kinds) next.
The dream of doing away with copyright presents us with the big question of how the creator - writer in our specific case - gets his living - or pittance in most cases.
This would seem, by and large, to be solved in the music world to a large degree - because it had to be.

I often feel the writer is left out of a lot of the anti-copyright thinking, and I don't recall an alternative being suggested.