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I don't know about other countries, but in the US, if you own land, you have to pay taxes on it, and even if you will it to someone else, they have to pay taxes on it. If they don't, the state (as in some unit of government) takes it away, and they either keep it or sell it. So if TubeMonkey wants to have permanent copyright, I'm fine with the copyright owner paying a tax and if they don't pay, it goes into public domain. I don't care if Disney's rendition of Snow White never makes it into the public domain, I'm more concerned about the millions of written, musical or video works which would never see the light of day again because there's often no easy way to discover the copyright owner.
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