Warner Music has "extracted millions of dollars in unlawful licensing fees" over "Happy Birthday"

[hunter]

3. The patent and copyright system is broken.

There are so many bogus patents and copyrights, and so many well-financed trolls, that the progress of arts and sciences in the USA is significantly impeded.

Cleaning up the mess will not be easy.

I've no objection to the concept of patents or copyrights themselves, I do not begrudge an author like J.K. Rowling a single penny of her wealth, but for every author or innovator like her making the world a brighter place there are dozens of intellectual property trolls trying to drag us back into the darkness.