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Copyright law was introduced as a way to encourage creative people to create more, in times when few people could obtain education. It currently does so by temporarily robbing society of the possession of the work. Two points disputable in my opinion are:
1) Does it really effectively does encourage authors to create? It might have been effective when there were only printing presses, and the way of converting copyright to money was straightforward, but I read lately here that copyright/law issues tend to gobble more and more time of creators. They shouldn't have to become experts in copyright law or hire lawyers to be able to profit from it.
2) Is such encouragement neccessary anymore? Times have changed, most people now are better educated than some of the best educated people were 200 years ago, and freedom of information flow through the Internet boosts creativity enormously. Perhaps the obstacles in the information flow brought on by copyright law harm creativity more than the law itself helps.
Discussion here seems to take those two for granted, so I can only point out that it might be irrelevant to reality.
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