Here is my article
The future of copyright.
Not many people know that just 150 years ago, the USA was the biggest thielf of intellectual material in the word, with books regularly published (especially of foreign authors) with no copyright fees paid. It was only with the growth of research and science in the USA that copyright laws were passed and enforced. Now China is in essentially the same position, with lip service paid to the a widely flouted law - a famous recent example being the fake apple stores. Copyright will not be enforced in a country until that country finds it in it's own interest because it's own citizens are in a position to make money from their ideas.
With the coming of the internet, where so much intellectual information can be digitised, our ideas of copyright of intellectual proprty must be reevaluated. Musicians may soon no longer be able to make musc from album sales - instead relying on live performances. Authors are in a worse position since then cannot charge for live performances, but can charge smaller fees for appearnaces on tv and radio panels, and if they are lucky, maybe their books will be made into films. I think ultimately there will be a free digital version of every work of art, with artists of whatever kind forced to find some other way to make people pay for their talent.
In the future, even physical products will escape copyright law. 3D printers, able to make things on the spot in your home, such as a cup or a vacuum cleaner, will be in everyon'es home in the next few years. By this time copyright will be something we all ignore completely.
