Barry has posted an interesting proposal for really radical copyright reform, outlining and defining certain key points.

I don’t agree with everything, like compulsory licensing, but I always admire someone who proposes, and even outlines, a solution. As opposed to falling back to bitching and moaning to how screwed up everything is and contributing no more than that. Best of all, Barry actually welcomes debate and discussion.

It actually reminds me of a discussion Barry and I were having while walking through downtown, about how a character like, say, Superman, should, given his place in American folklore and zeitgeist, be declared public domain already. This way everybody who needs to could get their Superman story out of their system without the compulsory creation of a zillion Superman clones.