Christian Engström and Rick Falkvinge wrote a book that tackles the problem of copyright laws and how they affect the current sharing of copyrighted property. Authors offer reforms that could potentially improve the possibilities of what can be done with copyrighted work which will benefit also the creators of that work.
There is this good analogy they made with public libraries: not only the people who read books and the society as a whole got benefits from getting free access to the culture but so did the authors themselves. I think it's a good point because instead of driving people away from your work with restrictions, they are being drawn in to check that work with possibility of sharing it with many others and supporting the creators.
Free Non-Commercial Sharing and Free Sampling
I want to say a few things about these changes. I feel like these changes are essential in today's society. Sharing someone else's work that you liked and enjoyed should not be illegal. This just hinders the ability of the work to be shared and if there is no profit being made for the person who shared, there should be no restrictions on this. Of course crediting the creator of the work is something that should be done. Same goes to creating something using someone else's work: remixes, parodies, revisions and so on. The creative process should not be restricted by the copyright laws.
I also want to note that, as the authors said, for the current copyright system to work they need to breach the right to private communication. This is definitely something that will completely ruin internet communication and no one would be happy with that.
Overall, I believe that these reforms will only help society with how the copyrighted works are distributed and used. However, my viewpoint is that of a consumer rather than a creator so I don't know how these changes actually going to affect them.
Source: The Case For Copyright Reform (2012) by Christian Engström & Rick Falkvinge
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