Patents are also very broken, the patent trolling ecosystem is the demonstration of that.
Copyright is several times too long, but making it more like patents wouldn't help at all. On the contrary.
Copyright is several times too long, but making it more like patents wouldn't help at all. On the contrary.
1) Patents can cover broad topics. Copyright doesn't have a similar standard (from what I've seen). You can't just copyright all images of a sunset, but your specific image can be copyrighted. See the EFFs article for examples of broad patents: https://www.eff.org/issues/resources-patent-troll-victims
2) Patents have a complex application process. Copyright shouldn't require this level of complexity as the technology exists to detect similar or exact copies and can be streamlined for everyone (think of a simple web form with your information, copy of the work, etc).