Comment Re:Concept was good... (Score 0) 148
"Bad" and "good" here depend on what side you're on.
I would say both unions and copyright laws protected more people at one time than they do now. Over time people protect their interests by making their protections more exclusive. Lawyers are hackers and this is the sort of thing they hack. I'm not sure these changes have any bearing on the usefulness of copyright law or of unions as ideas. The implementations, on the other hand, need to adapt to power struggles over their benefits.
