90% of copyright is handling registrations and settling transfers, updating the account books at various places... just a shit ton legal and accounting grunt wo

90% of copyright is handling registrations and settling transfers, updating the account books at various places... just a shit ton legal and accounting grunt work. We've got skyscrapers filled with said grunts all over the Western world. Enforcement has always been separate, even before copyright and from the very beginnings of the Stationers monopoly. Despite the existence of the High Commission, the reality of censorial control of the press at this time did not primarily lie with the stationers. Certainly, they had a role to play in the politics and practice of sixteenth century censorship,[24] but in fact it was not the stationers but rather "[t]wo long-standing institutions, parliament and the royal prerogative, [that] proved to be Elizabethan England's most useful means for effecting censorship" [Clegg, Press Censorship in Elizabethan England, 19] http://www.copyrighthistory.org/cam/tools/request/showRecord?id=commentary_uk_1557 http://www.copyrighthistory.org/cam/tools/request/showRecord... It really could just be as easy as writing a computer program. Spotify is basically a voluntary collection agency that honors IP contracts. If we can make it so the legal and accounting services are computerized, with software both writing and enforcing contracts, we could make copyright registration and transfer settlement incredibly cheap. That's the main reason why copyright law has favored those who can pay the lawyers and accountants the most, they have always been necessary in order to make the entire system function.