I agree that there is not an orange to orange comparison, but I have still not seen a law that could scale as well. The example that comes to mind with a proposed law like this is how would you license work that build on another work? What if I decide to publish a blog post after taking some course, that distills whatever I learned in the course for free?

We already have laws that cover this.

If you know enough to write your own course that completes and steals significant share from the original, you likely have so much background knowledge that you didn’t need to take the course in the first place.

If you only ever learned about the topic from this course, you likely have an uninteresting shallow understanding that won’t take share from the original.

And if you substantively copy the course and publish your own version which is heavily taken from the original, then you may be violating their intellectual property.

Seems like it’s still fine to keep that as-is. We can still charge a license fees to use somebody’s works to integrate into their algorithm, since algorithms aren’t humans.

I do think copyrights should be shortened to 20 years but that’s another discussion