There's no reason for the electors to overrule the popular choice.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not control derivative work. And copyright law granted this protection for the limited time of 14 years.

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.

There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand.