[Trenien]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

Yes. Some control. But control nonetheless. And applicable laws are likely to impose some limitations on my control, regardless of what I have control over.

Essentially, the control given by copyright was supposed to cover distribution for money. It's a monopoly given by the state over it and goes no further.

But I see two things of significance in your reasons for objecting to copyright. Please tell me if I take your meaning correctly.

The first is that your objection doesn't seem to be to copyright per se: it's to the efforts of corporate entities to extend and manipulate copyright to insure exclusive access to and control over creations protected by copyright. Your solution seems to be "abolish copyright"

Although I tend to be a proponent to the ending of copyright, I don't think that as a solution to that problem. The problem itself has made me reconsider what copyright implies, and pointed the way toward works that convincingly demonstrate its vaunted benefits may not be as real as we've been taught they are. Meanwhile, the problems it raises (which were recognised as such by its creators) keep getting bigger with time.

The second seems to be that the current laws prevent your access to works, because they are still under copyright, whereas they wouldn't be if the laws remained as they had been written originally.

Do I correctly understand you?

Actually, if I want to access copyrighted work, I'm sufficiently computer savy to be able to do so with such a level of anonymity for the risks to be negligible. That's not my point.
My point is that since our computers are under linux, my wife and I have to jump through hoops if we want to buy ebooks for our readers - to the point that it's a chore we delay as long as we may before getting to it.
My point is that we, as a society, are being robbed of our collective heritage for the benefit of a few - and that's true even for folktales (just try to make a big SnowWhite or Beauty and the Beast movie. You'd better be reaaally careful in the way you make it).