Problems with Copyright

Bruce Schneier points to a 13 page Law Review Article on the Problems with Copyright. The point being that the law as written, and apparently as interpreted by the courts makes many now common actions be violations. Things such as forwarding email messages and digital photographs, handing out articles in class, reading poems and singing aloud in public (famously including Happy Birthday), and getting tattoos of cartoon characters are no-nos. As Schneier sums up: "The point of the article is how, simply by acting normally, all of us are technically lawbreakers many times over every day. When laws are this far outside the social norms, it's time to change them."