Intellectual Property Law: your opinion?

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I know nothing about it, but the capacity to reform patents etc seems interesting.

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None really. It's just talks of IP in trade deals made me think. I do want artists to have a fair shake of the sauce bottle, but in the Internet age it seems harder and harder to guarantee artists' rights. Maybe in the future all artist profits will be done via Kickstarteresque campaigns?

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Yes, although kickstarter has the advantage of being more ... democratic. The even broader way to finance arts is through lotteries or other such public funding, but those have its problems as well

I think one problem with the concept of "intellectual property" is it seems like a misnomer. To me "property" entails a finite object. If I take your physical property, you can no longer enjoy it. That is not the case with IP - there can't be a scarcity of IP as there can with non-intellectual property. Is that splitting hairs?

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It seems the real public menace comes from patent abuse though, and Vox/Bernie a Sanders had an interesting proposal (that reminds me of the way governments used to solve big issues) via prize money like how John Harrison was rewarded for the marine chronometer.

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/25/9397069/bernie-sanders-drug-prices