What a letter. I found it helped to read it aloud to make proper sense of it.

I’m grateful we have copyright laws, protecting the work of writers, musicians, and orher artists. But I’m equally grateful for the time limits and public domain laws. Would I even be aware of Wordsworth’s poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud” if it wasn’t so freely available?

tl;dr: Wordsworth humbly urges lawmakers to pass a bill (extending duration of copyright to the greater of 42 years or authors lifetime plus 7 years). No argument or case for or against copyright is articulated

Copyright restrictions of digital contents is a vestige of the past. Given today technologies, it is rather obsolete.

For those thinking it goes against artists, keep in mind that a lot of art today is simply garbage made only for money. If something is made only for money, it is not art, and indeed I can understand why those making it advocate so strongly for copyright restrictions, money being the only thing attached to their art.

The digital world, making it extremely easy to access and copy human knowledge, is an achievement of the human mind. Patreons, or an art world evolving alongside society and other jobs, may be one of the possible natural adaptations to this human achievement. Otherwise we're making the same arguments as Luddites.

For the unrestricted copyright inclined, there are ways to stay in legality, if such inclinations collide, and they are fruitful. You will find that consuming only public domain content will be a plus, not a privation.