315 10 A collection of impossible ideas Rebecca Giblin and Kimberlee Weatherall 1 This is a collection of impossible ideas As flagged in the introduction, this book’s contributions exhibit rich divergence: they identify the aims of copyright differently, offer a variety of conceptions of the ‘public interest’, and sometimes fundamentally disagree with one another. We do not, in this book, offer one coherent vision for a future, redesigned, ideal copyright law. We are reimagining copyright law – and much more debate is needed, from a larger variety of stakeholders, before solutions might be found. But nonetheless, these collected chapters combine to provide some salient themes and lessons which recur throughout the book. This concluding chapter is not intended to merely summarise the collected chapters: each is a complex and standalone set of ideas, and each deserves its own reading. Instead, the questions we want to explore in this final instalment speak to a bigger picture. First, what are those common threads or ideas for a reconception of copyright in the public interest: when our authors took a step back, what were some of their core reimaginings? Second, how achievable are those 1 In writing this chapter the authors benefited from discussions with a range of experts, including in particular Professor Sam Ricketson (University of Melbourne), Professor Tim Stephens (University of Sydney), and Professor Chester Brown (University of Sydney). We thank them for their assistance; any errors are of course our own.