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If you think about the internet in terms of democratizing publishing and making more works available to the public. Add in the increased availability of consumers to monetize the content along with self-serve advertising such as AdSense / AdWords. With these advances in place it makes sense that copyright should be shortened because it allows creators to be compensated more quickly.

If you contrast works like the Dan Brown's 'Davinci Code' compared to Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein' it would stand to reason that Dan Brown was able to be remunerated for his efforts much more quickly than Mary Shelly thus the purpose of copyright can be full filled much more quickly and should be shortened in order to make more works available to the public. Which is the stated goal of copyright.