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The problem with the whole life of the creator thing is what happens when we are able to download (upload?) ourselves into the network? At what point does death occur? You might be saying, "Well a virtual entity living inside of the network has no need for compensation..." But you might be wrong about that, it is still too early to tell.
Time for these virtual entities is a factor as well, what is ten years to an entity that can simply go into sleep mode for a century whenever it chooses to?
In the short term we will have AI creating entertainment products for us, should the products of these AI's go to the AI itself or the creator of the AI? What if an AI creates a better and stronger AI? Should the compensation for the products of this new AI still go to the creator of the original AI? What if all AI's stem from a single original AI? What if a majority of the products we consume are created by these new and improved AI's? The situation would be all compensation heading towards one source...
In other words, planetary corporations. Or "I Robot" style government.
Just one of the many reasons I voted to do away with copyright forever.
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