Legalizing Marijuana is more important than copyright? I disagree. Copyright is about how we handle our cultural heritage and how we compensate those who produce those artifacts. To me that is a way more important topic than the war on drugs.
That's not what he said.
And don't make the false assumption that you can't have attribution or compensation without copyright.
If you smoke Marijuana(like many), yes, it is a very important issue for you not to risk going to jail, etc.
petra's just being cynical towards politicians...
Journalists and newspapers as we know them today are deathly afraid of becoming obsolete, which they in many ways already are. What they're doing now with ads and paywalls is just delaying their extinction for a bit. I doubt you will find many journalists in favor of copyright law vitiation. Or writers in general, musicians, etc.