http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/01/13/copyright_law_shouldn_t_keep_me_from_fixing_a_tractor.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/01/13

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/01/13/copyright_law_shouldn_t_keep_me_from_fixing_a_tractor.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/01/13/copyright... "I’m a repairman. I recognize broken things when I see them. I got into this fight because I wanted to help people repair their broken stuff. Turns out, copyright law is the thing that was broken all along." The problem is, as perceived by me and some others, that the patent system isn't functioning as intended. It needs to get fixed. Part of that could probably be reducing the restrictions on individual manufacturing, even though, taken as a mass event, that defeats the forbidding power of patents. Other parts could be decreasing the time period for patent enforcement, adding requirements for patent holders - to, e.g., diminish problems with "patent trolls". Yet another could be admitting that patents in different areas work differently - a software patent (which today doesn't really justify its existence) is a very different thing than a pharmaceutical patent.