[danaris]

I think it would be very reasonable for copyright to return to its original terms: 14 years, with an optional renewal for another 14.

The vast majority of works make the vast majority of their money during that time frame. Indeed, for some works (like software), it's still probably much too long!

Citing a few wildly extreme outliers as evidence that we should stick with anything remotely resembling the current scheme a) is either disingenuous or betrays a deep misunderstanding of statistics, and b) can only work based on an appeal to emotion derived from growing up under the current scheme and seeing a creator's work as indelibly theirs forever, rather than something that should, once they have been allowed to make a living from it for a reasonable time, become the collective property of all humanity.