End copyright because ‘law for the rich keeps creators poor’, says author Glyn Moody

In his recently published "Walled Culture - How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor," author Glyn Moody makes this bold statement. The book focuses on the history of copyright, going back more than 300 years, to then underline how the transition from analog to digital has changed the parameters of the procedure.

Moody proposes two options that society can undertake: it can continue as it always has, suffering the negative consequences caused by a law aimed at benefiting only a specific privileged group, or it can decide to maximize the potential of the digital sphere for the benefit of humanity - copyright or the internet?

The article continues with the transcript of an interview carried out with the author of the subject in question, in which they discuss what this sort of a change would mean in practical terms, were society to undertake it.