> And for anything that's distributed digitally it's an eternity.
On the flip side, there's a fair bit of fiction, etc, where the same author has been acting as steward of the series for 35 years. Having them still get proceeds from book 1 is an important part of the calculus to continue. There's a balance to be struck here.
I do think there should be a significant fee at renewal.
> The current terms that won't even let your grandchildren benefit from the work your generation funded are an outright affront to the spirit of the constitution.
The current terms are absurd, agreed.
> At this point we would be better off scrapping the whole concept of copyright.
Nah; I like there being a market to make expensive works of intellectual property, which depends upon copyright.
On the flip side, there's a fair bit of fiction, etc, where the same author has been acting as steward of the series for 35 years. Having them still get proceeds from book 1 is an important part of the calculus to continue. There's a balance to be struck here.
I do think there should be a significant fee at renewal.
> The current terms that won't even let your grandchildren benefit from the work your generation funded are an outright affront to the spirit of the constitution.
The current terms are absurd, agreed.
> At this point we would be better off scrapping the whole concept of copyright.
Nah; I like there being a market to make expensive works of intellectual property, which depends upon copyright.