Copyright is essentially a law of physical objects. Information is only involved superficially, to modulate it. When information doesn't need objects anymore, c

Copyright is essentially a law of physical objects. Information is only involved superficially, to modulate it. When information doesn't need objects anymore, copyright is basically dead. It exists only by vestiges of behavioural convention. Debating the length of copyright term is pretty much useless. As are refinements of 'fair-use'. If there are no solid 'attachment points' for payment, and no discrete identifiable product, the machine is just spinning but going nowhere. We need entirely different ways to pay for abstract creative effort. It is an opportunity to make something better -- copyright was fundamentally economically suboptimal anyway.