A related question: What happens when IP maximalists succeed in changing this from civil law to criminal law? Someone might be willing to risk damages -- all

A related question: What happens when IP maximalists succeed in changing this from civil law to criminal law? Someone might be willing to risk damages -- all the more so if they were actually limited to direct demonstrable loss rather than absurd... "presumed / possible / theoretical knock-on" loss amounts. But criminal prosecution? Along with IP rights should come responsibilities, especially with items that have become part of common culture and dialog. If you don't fairly represent those rights to the culture/society, you should lose them. In the patent world, IIRC, you can't simply use a patent to take a technology "off the market" / out of use altogether. (I'm no lawyer, and maybe I'm wrong, but isn't there language in the legislation mandating licensure under various scenarios?) Neither should that apply to published works.