The dilemma of file sharing!

The internet's sole purpose is to copy (to recreate). Copyright tries to police this. Through projects like Creative Commons the middleman, the content publisher, is removed from the relationship the artist holds with their intellectual property and the consumer. For copyrighters the core of the file sharing problem is ownership, raising the question, who is the distributor of content? Content publishers e.g., record companies, try to preserve copyrights by extending their term. Individual's in the communications industry refer to this as the "Mickey Mouse protection act" which refers to the never ending copyright over the cartoon character. What content publishers do not realise (or fail to acknowledge), is that the current copright laws do not fit in with our technological age. Mediation or negotiation appears to be a more suitable resolution focus than major publishers taking individuals to court over such "piracy" matters.