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The thing that always annoys me about opinions like that of Sonny Bono is that creative work does not exist in a vacuum. Creative works draw on a common pool of culture (the public domain) that, without it, would not allow new works to be made. For example, if eternal copyright existed, than Sonny Bono would not have been able to write songs about love, because other people had written songs about love first and therefore had eternal dibs on the idea. And he would not have been able to write songs about pain. Or friendship. Or anything, really. Anything that anyone else might have done first would be off-limits.
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