Oh, and here's another one that makes me nuts. My husband made a ton of music videos for local bands in the 80s. Some of the bands got some national recognition, even. He has all the master tapes in the closet of his office and he CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH THEM. The process and expense of getting all the various rights sorted out (publishing rights, performance rights, synchronization rights, visual image rights, etc. ad nauseum for **each individual song**) is so fucking complicated that all that will ever happen to these videos is they will sit in his closet and collect dust. No one will ever see them, even though there's a market for them. Explain to me how that's protecting artists, keeping their work from ever being seen and keeping *anyone* from making a dime off it????

(And yeah, I know copyright and trademark are different, but it's all the same kind of protectionism that is killing creativity.)