"Fairy Use" Fair Use and copyright laws

Fair Use and Copyright laws have interesting historical roots. Who really knows the first time that someone got upset because someone took credit for someone else's work, but capitalist society has become more and more concerned with ownership of objects and ideas since that first moment. To the point now where sometimes harmless use of someone else's idea or picture can lead to serious legal implications because, frankly, people do not like to lose out on money that could potentially be in their pocket. To me it becomes a problem of ambitions, people who were once proud of merely creating a wonderful idea are now more focused on the monetary gain that can be had from their endeavor. I imagine that Socrates would not be up in arms over the use of the Socratic method, but rather be ecstatic that people have used his idea as a basis for inquiry for centuries. What is interesting about the technological age is that a lot of these barriers are being pulled down because the sharing of information is so much more efficient and easy. I think that actual products will always be under copyright laws, but regulation of the sharing of information is on the verge of becoming so difficult, it is almost unrealistic that the courts will be able to keep up with the reproduction of information.