Music to my ears

"My suggestion is to junk the current structure entirely and recast copyright as an exclusive right of commercial exploitation. Copyright owners would have the sole right to exploit their works commercially or authorize others to do so, but would not be entitled to control noncommercial uses."

This is what Jessica Litman said to Mikael Pawlo in a Greplaw interview this week. Let me repeat it.

"My suggestion is to junk the current structure entirely and recast copyright as an exclusive right of commercial exploitation."

Thank you, Jessica Litman, for putting it so succinctly. This is exactly the intuitive response that I call for in Common Rights.