Overly-Broad Copyright Law Makes Us All Infringers

John Tehranian, a law professor at the University of Utah, has published an interesting paper (PDF warning) where he calculates that he rings up $12.45 million in liability over the course of an average day without illegally downloading any music.
Everyday activities, like responding to emails (you include the senders text in your response, don't you?), singing 'Happy Birthday' (which Time Warner owns the rights to), and forwarding a friend's pictures to your mom (ownership of a physical work and it's intellectual property rights are not the same) all infringe on someone's copyright.

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