I actually wrote a recent blog post on this subject, wherein I make the case that copyright is dying, and try to come up with something better: http://thepenzo

I actually wrote a recent blog post on this subject, wherein I make the case that copyright is dying, and try to come up with something better: http://thepenzone.com/content/copyright-dying-beware-accessright http://thepenzone.com/content/copyright-dying-beware-accessr... I think it's definitely time we have a replacement for copyright, given the irrelevance of copying nowadays, though "Publish Right" is likely a better term than "Broadcast Right", since the main issue is the commercial distribution arrangements for protected works. If some agreement can be found, after a certain date, copyright should stop being issued and the new right issued instead. Now we just need to figure out what that will be.