Mick Hucknall is talking out of his fat ginger arse

He's in the Guardian, wibbling about copyright. He says "Copyright is not a monopoly restricting the free flow of ideas"; presumably he's a different Mick Hucknall to the one who moaned back in 2000 that his major label deal meant the record company, not Simply Red, owned the copyright for the band's master tapes.

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In an ideal world, perhaps, copyright would protect creators. In the real world, copyrights are owned by companies - most work is work-for-hire, which means the person who pays you owns the copyright.

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The whole point of copyright was to give creators a limited period during which they and only they could profit from their work, and once that period was up the work passed into the public domain. It really doesn't work like that today.