The copyright system has fundamental design flaws

The copyright system which is currently applied world-wide has some fundamental issues.

• It is rather a lottery than a serious rewarding system. A content producer may occasionally get famous and rich, but you need a big portion of good luck and a good manager.

• It is expensive and causes huge costs for our governments.

• Regulating the use and sharing of digitally published content has become a Sisyphean task causing absurd laws and requiring hordes of human resources in public administrations.

Dass Patente den Wettbewerb und die Innovation eher behindern als fördern, und dass das gesamte System abgeschafft werden sollte, lese ich auch in The Case Against Patents, Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Winter 2013), pp. 3-22, im Kommentar dazu von Karsten Gerloff und vom Economist).

Wikipedia has two articles that overlap partly Opposition to copyright und Copyright abolition