@mttaggart@ShredderFeeder which means that what you are after is a form or body of legislation which has that power, because as you have already recognised, copyright law does not.
I chip in with a statement of the obvious because I'm always bemused by people thinking that it is the licence statement that provides the powers (that we use for FOSS or CC) when in fact it comes by turning copyright upon itself.
Alas, getting better laws is much harder.