Current copyright is dramatically limiting culture and cultural growth.

Any artist now needs to make sure that they are not inadvertently copying anything from their entire lifetime, and that of their parents.

It’s rarely good enough that an artist shows that they had never been exposed to a previous work, and so now I see artists taking one of two paths: 1) working in secret, trying desperately to thread the needle between making a living creating and losing it all by being discovered. 2) Forgoing the idea of true creative expression altogether, and limiting themselves to samples that they can pay for up front.