I want to clarify my own stand in terms of copyright.

When I create a work - that work is my own. It doesn't belong to my readers, it doesn't belong to the government and it doesn't belong to the people. It is my own and I have the right to say how it is to be used, to charge money for it and to treat it like any other property of mine. I would expect to have the weight of the law on my side to help defend my property. I believe I should have the right to sell or transfer my rights of ownership of a work, and that I should have the right to receive or purchase ownership rights from other artists.

That being said - the weight of the law should be tightly focused on commercial copying infringements. While use of my work without my permission in a noncriminal manner is certainly unwelcome and rude, it should by no means be considered criminal. Here's how I see it:
Someone prints off a hundred copies of Bunny & the Cantelope and sells them - that's a clear infringement. Someone prints a copy to give to a friend who isn't online - that's ok. Somebody really likes my concept but hates my execution and redraws my first chapter - provided they're acknowledging my original creation and not commercially competing with me, I see no infringement. Somebody really likes the concept and begins selling t-shirts with their own renditions of the characters - infringement.
When the law intervenes in the noncommercial copying or transformation of a work, I believe it is harmful to society - even moreso to the artists and creators. When copyright law becomes overreaching, it ceases to be used to protect the rightful property of its owners and is, instead, used to eliminate competition.

I believe that the current administrations of the world are adopting a disproportionate response to copyright infringement and that the spirit of copyright is being corrupted to serve, not the creator, but the purveyor of the creator's work. That the result is going to be a stifling and homogonizing of creativity, the loss of thousands of works from our cultural history and the throttling of innovation.