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None of these. Too extreme. I also find that artists have too much advantage of copyrights, earning money on a work done 40 or 50 years earlier. My father also doesn't get royalties of people that walk the streets that he paved 40 years hence, does he? He got paid for paving them, and had to keep paving (and build houses) for a living. Some artists create only a few works that hit the market like a bomb and then they live off them for half their lives or longer. (More often in music and film than in writing, thats true.) I think that is wrong.
Copyright should be 20 years after first publication imho, and then the work should go into the public domain, just like patents. It doesn't matter that bookstores etcetera still earn money off of it because they actually are still doing the work to produce it.
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