What do you see as the positives and negatives around copyright?

I think that copyright is a positive thing because it protects creators from people out right stealing their hard work and earning revenue for something they had no part in creating, although on the flip side I believe that copyright can also be a negative thing because as seen in some commentary videos on you tube such as H3H3’s video, which came under the fair use act on you tube but was taken down due to copyright, there was a lawsuit and H3H3 won and created FUPA (Fair Use Protection Account) to help other content creators who are having videos taken down unfairly. I think that copyright is a positive thing but is used and unfairly and negatively by some people and overall just makes it hard to create something new. it is also hard to prove that something is yours unless you own a company or something. In a scenario where a big company steals from a small time indie creator the copyright law is there to help the smaller indie creator take back what is his.

is possible to make anything new? 

I believe that it is possible to make something new, but its just a lot harder to do so with copyright, in a sense everything belongs to some one and unless they have been dead for a certain amount of years the use of there product requires the creators consent, this makes it very difficult for indie creators to make any thing due to there presence not being very known making it harder for them to reach creators of certain products. An example would be “everything that can be invented has been invented.” – Charles H. Duell, he said this in 1899 and obviously many more things where invented after that point, in this sense I believe that we can still create something new, it just has to be original, which is very hard to do when everything we have belongs to someone else.

(Charles H. Duell was the Commissioner of US patent office in 1899. Mr. Deull’s most famous attributed utterance is that “everything that can be invented has been invented.”)