That is a fair analysis, and I generally agree. But a copyright reform wouldn’t mean there is no way at all for you to monetise your great quality learning mat

That is a fair analysis, and I generally agree. But a copyright reform wouldn’t mean there is no way at all for you to monetise your great quality learning materials. In my ideal world it would mean you can monetise them for a reasonable time and after that time they become a public good. We could also come up with better monetisation strategies for such materials. But what really grinds my gears for example now my government pays private companies/publishers to produce learning materials which are then sold again to the schools - why are these materials paid for with public money aka taxes not freely available for everyone? I do agree private people should be able to monetise their work but this should never extend to materials that are paid for with taxes. Those should always be public goods. And I can see no other reason than greed and corruption why that is not the case. I am sure there are other reasons that I am missing since I’m not that deep in the field - but then again I just want everyone to be able to access the wealth of information easily that I (as someone fairly familiar with web technology) can access freely in multiple ways. As long as that is not the case I will stubbornly keep clamouring for copyright reform, happy to hear other ways to achieve that goal though.