Copyright abuse

C.E. Petit has been rumminating on copyright abuse.

"Typically,1 copyright abuse falls into one of two categories:

The copyright holder who wants to squelch criticism and comment...

The copyright holder who wants to exploit a property for purposes other than copyright. One obvious example of this is Disney, with its repeated attempts to use copyright law and extend copyright law to protect that overgrown shirtless rat."

He's also been paraphrasing Winston Churchill:

"Intellectual property régimes are the worst means of encouraging progress in science and the useful arts… except for all the others."