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One honestly wonders what percentage of voters do, in fact, remember what Bob Rae was like in office. I don’t think most people are all that politically aware before somewhere in their mid-teens, which means that probably almost no one born after 1980 remembers politics during the Rae years. The number’s just going to drop from here on, so I don’t think “Remember Bob Rae!” is going to remain a useful rallying cry for the Conservatives for much longer, if it is even now.
Of course, they’ll just come up with a new one.
We need more examples?
Seriously, though, there are options in between keeping copyright as it is and removing it altogether. Shortening the term is one. Mandatory mechanical licensing is another (that is, allowing people to make copies for a fee set by the government or a nonpartisan board without requiring permission from the copyright owner, who does, however, receive the fee—the trick is setting the fee at a level that makes it reasonable for the average person making a single copy, but still high enough to make it unattractive for corporations churning out millions of them). We also need to overhaul how derivative works are handled, and some aspects of trademark law.