Take the Copy Out of Copyright?

Heck, just one more post (wafer thin!):

Danny O’Brien, writing about copyright makes the really good, probably hugely obvious point that copying as the "point" for payment to an artist may just not make the kind of sense it did when society came up with copyright.  I hesitate to summarize his post and it is rather short — definitely worth reading if you’re interested in puzzling out how copyright should work in the Internet age.