Response to Larry Lessig's "How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law"

Larry's three example that shaped his argument did so in a manner that was easy to follow.  I hold the same views as Larry, and I thought this speech still applys today, though it was made five years ago.  Copyrights extend too far, and determining what is and what isn't "copied" has become too extreme.  How far is too far, when it comes to piracy and plagiarism? The youtube videos created by users that mixed content with music, for example - an entirely original creation, but with content that is not originally theirs.  I think that is someone claims the content that is not theirs to be theirs, then legal action should be taken place, but is that too tedious for those wishing to weed out what was stolen?  And is anyone making profit?  Maybe, if a youtube video has enough views and the user allows ads on the video, it is making a profit, but what about sharing files through the internet?  No one is making a profit, but I suppose the person that owns the material isn't making a profit either, so that causes the law to step in.

People create.  People who create are artists.  Artists do not want their work copied.  I can see how copyrights work - I wouldn't want someone to create something exactly like my artwork, or steal my artwork - and claim it as their own original idea.  But what if my artwork was all over the internet, and someone printed out a picture of it, cut it up, and recreated it into a collage.  Is that copying?  No, it's creating something entirely new -  So many things have been created and continue to be created, it's a miracle that new ideas and creations still form, even if they are influenced by something that was already created.