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If you can't get the gov to change the length of copyright back to it's original length maybe they could simply say that any copyright for which a yearly fee is not paid will not be enforced by the government whether or not it's still technically in force. If a book is making money for the publisher they will pay it and keep the book available. If they deem the book not worth keeping in print the enforcement will lapse and the author or anyone else can make it available and sell it directly. Why should publishers or anyone else get a service like copyright enforcement for free anyway? Stop giving out corporate handouts. This would help decrease the deficit, keep orphaned or abandoned works available, and allow authors to actually get some money from their work creating a book abandoned by their publisher.
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