[mlyle]

> was never meant to give perpetual rights, which is what your scheme would do

Pretty quickly the cost to renew exceeds the amount of money in the world.

This scheme tosses the few powerful creators a small bone while shortening duration of all copyrights.

In addition to generating revenue from these large creators, and shortening their total term of protection... it also diminishes their power by creating a vibrant public domain with a whole lot of contemporaneous works in it.