Back in 2014, I wrote a thorough post in
"New Paper Argues for Reasonable Reduction in Copyright".
I quoted one of the best books on the topic,
"Against Intellectual Monopoly" by Boldrin and Levin and discussed a lot of issues with culture + Orphan Works being lost to dust.
And 2017 posts in
"EU Piracy Report" (especially see Posts #172+#179) where I discussed even more (journal articles, video games, Super Bowl, Doctor Who)... even the "funny" article
"University Requires Students To Pay $180 For 'Art History' Text That Has No Photos Due To Copyright Problems".
And just last week, yet another example of degrading physical media (and trying to recover obsolete formats):
Ars Technica, "Here’s why “baking” damaged reel-to-reel tapes renders them playable again"