IF that is the case (golden geese going underground due to copyright reform, which I find highly unlikely), and we return to the days of folk music – Well… You say that as if it would be a bad thing.
Remember that those folk musicians around the camp fire now can make their music available anytime, anywhere, to anyone in the world, not just the few sitting around their fire. For music, at least, the number of “folk musicians” in the world is enough for a supply of wide-ranging, high-quality music lasting 24/7.

Even if all golden geese (i.e. professional artists) stopped producing if we change copyright, which I find highly unlikely, every single one of us would still have access to more culture than at anytime before in the history of mankind. And we would have that access without loosing our civil rights, civil rights that the copyright industry right now is lobbying to remove, just in order to protect their business model.

I have never, ever argued for that. But that’s the thing with the pro-copyright people. They’re so eager to distort the fact, they’ll openly twist the other side of the argument to make themselves look better.

Songwriters/composer/lyricists are geese who lay golden eggs. These golden eggs are special creations that have given great enjoyment to the world for enduring generations in a way that has increased the quotient of human life through musical expressions that delight and inspire.

Those who cannot lay golden eggs (geese or otherwise) yet want free, repetitive, unlimited access to those golden eggs are likely to ignore the uniqueness of the “golden” creations and are increasingly taking steps to cut off the food supply and life-sustaining resources of the Golden Geese.
The Golden Geese are not renewable resources – when these creatures have been completely undermined and nominalized, there is no way to “restock the tank.”

Picture a world in which no new generations of artists are being hailed and acclaimed. When the incentive for laying golden eggs (creative control, royalty) has been completely marginalized, and musical excellence is no longer rewarded, the Golden Geese will be driven completely underground (literally and/or figuratively). They’ll still lay golden eggs (they cannot NOT lay golden eggs), but folks will only find them sung round the minstrel campfires. We’ll return to the days of folk music.

James Madison, the father of the Constitution, in Federalist Papers # 43 wrote strongly in favor of copyright and its inclusion in the Constitution, saying its “utility can scarcely be questioned,” it was a “right of common law,” and “the public good fully coincides” with copyright.

WRONG. The Constitution doesn’t establish copyright, it just gives Congress the power to pass a copyright law. The contours of that law are up to Congress, and ultimately voters. Apparently Larry Lessig is not the only one who tries to constitutionalize the details of copyright law.

The problem is that one collective body (MPAA/RIAA) are trying to dictate to the entire *world* how they can and can’t use something they’ve bought.

The world doesn’t work like that.