Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property LawIntellectual property law in the United States does not work well and it needs to be reformedbut not for the reasons given by most critics. The issue is not that intellectual property rights are too easily obtained, too broad in scope, and too long in duration. Rather, the primary problem is overreaching by publishers, producers, artists, and others who abuse intellectual property law by claiming stronger rights than the law actually gives them. From