[_carbyau_]

Pace of change has increased from when the law was originally made. I agree with you but the laws haven't been updated to reflect how fast modern society moves.

Mind you, I think similarly for copyrights too. Every time they got extended they should have instead been shortened by 20%.

[avereveard]

The risk, at least for copyright, is that there is no downside for predatory publishers to just wait the time limit out. It does need reforming, but it needs to take care of minor artist interests as well as big entertainment corporates and probably needs split provisions for the two.

Like, copyright might last a lifetime if owned by the author, and some arbitrarily short period if transferred to an incorporated entity. Laws should identify carefully publishers to avoid big corp exploiting the systems, but it could be made to work. Maybe make it so that personal copyright royalties starts from 1% gross revenue of publishing and adaptations, or something else big enough to incentivize money transfers out of coprs and toward artists.