To me, it seems that these issues of creeping copyright tyranny are part of a larger societal problem by which the law becomes less and less the good fences that make good neighbors, and more and more a yoke the powerful place upon the little people. And this goes hand in hand with the problem that the rules (both the formal laws and the informal social boundaries) have become less and less binding the higher one goes up on the social ladder.
Unless we can address this problem, everything else is a bandaid on a suppurating cancer.
