Cory Doctorow on how copyright broke

There's certainly something wrong with the way copyright laws work in today's age of electronic reproduction. Sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow has written an interesting commentary titled "How Copyright Broke" examining the problems with today's copyright laws.

The idea that copyright confers the exclusive right to control copying, performance, adaptation, and general use of a creative work is a polite fiction that has been mostly harmless throughout its brief history, but which has been laid bare by the Internet, and the disjoint is showing.

Time for copywrong?