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Increasing scale copyright reg:
10 years: Free copyright
11-20 years: Pay $10 to register. A token amount, but it means that most people's blog posts and college newspaper articles will enter the public domain, while anything they have a commercial interest in gets registered.
21-30 years: Pay $100 to register. No problem for anything that actually has a market; not worth registering "all this stuff I might someday come up with a way to monetize."
31-40 years: Pay $500 to register. Again, only going to be the stuff that's *worth* keeping on the market. Movies, yes; songs, maybe not. (I have no idea how photography copes with copyright registration, but if it's "collected works of [photographer] from [year]," that should be okay.)
41-50 years: Pay $1000 to register. Again: Disney registers all their movies, but maybe not all their individual children's books. (But maybe they do. Disney has a lot of money to throw around.)
51-75 years: Pay $10,000 to register each work. The Bridge On The River Kwai stays in copyright; Plan 9 From Outer Space enters the public domain. Lord of the Rings remains copyrighted; the Mike Hammer books enter the public domain. Sixty-five geeky websites pop up with creative marketing ideas for newly PD movies and books; inside 18 months, all but five of them have gone broke.
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