The real solution would be to toss out both copyright and patent (I have much smaller problems with trademark. It seems to be working mostly okay) and re-write the law for copyright and patent keeping in mind their constitutional purpose: Public benefit.
Currently copyright has been perverted into a bludgeon that’s used most of the time to prevent creativity. That’s dumb, and the opposite of its intention. Same goes for patent. Patent was supposed to be a limited protection in exchange for handing over a complete description to the public. A recipie/blueprint that any craftsman skilled in the given trade can use to make the invention themselves.
Patents are also supposed to be non-obvious and novel. So patents like “display an entry from a database… On a computer with the internet” shouldn’t ever have been let through. Patent is almost completely backwards today. People are getting patents granted for pretty much anything, then exercising them to prevent science and the progress of the useful arts. Instead of what the constitution dictates, ie promotion of said science and useful arts.
