a tasty copyright analogy

Jonathan Lethem on the overexpansion of copyright rights, from an author who depends in part on copyright for his living: “It’s like there’s ten miles of frosting on a cake. I like the cake, I might cling to the cake, but it definitely doesn’t need all that frosting.” Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking over the World 382 (2013).