[steamer25]

> Labels have invested a heap of cash buying these rights

IP legislation needs to move into the 21st century where we have digital audio workstations and word processors and non-linear editors and many other modern conveniences that have brought the cost of producing and distributing content way way down. We need to send some sort of sunset signal to the labels and comparable organizations that they should stop investing so much in lawyerifying their content because the government is going to severely limit the enforcement of their claims to particular combinations of colors and sounds.

Come to think of it, maybe the enforcement period should be proportional to the development costs. E.g., how many man-hours at minimum wage + amortized equipment costs did it take to record that song? Okay, we'll enforce your copyright for three years. Oh, you spent gajillions producing a AAA-tier video game? You get 10 years.