I feel extremely cynical about "intellectual property" enforcement. In some circumstances (recorded music ca 1995-2015), IP laws are extremely punitive, and ent

I feel extremely cynical about "intellectual property" enforcement. In some circumstances (recorded music ca 1995-2015), IP laws are extremely punitive, and enthusiastically enforced. There's even some folklore around copyright, too. It's easy to get dogpiled on social media if you say copyright on books is too long, or too strictly enforced, or that fair use as enshrined in law and not enforced isn't really fit for purpose. But as far as The Web goes, apparently all content is very loosely owned, copyright is gauzy and difficult to discern, and oligarchs want to do away with it altogether. It's not hard to figure out that the "hidden variable" here is that already wealthy people typically held music, movie and book content, while plebes without the money to sue hold web content copyright.