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What's to stop a publisher from publishing a book with 300 pages of "banana banana banana" repeated over and over, and then releasing the work into the public domain for the tax credit? I don't advocate for copyright to be reduced, because there just isn't any chance of that happening. I do favor putting an end to extensions to copyright, but if it is extended further, it becomes more imperative to have orphaned works legislation. There are movies that are rotting - literally - in vaults, and no one can restore them because they are orphaned works. Copyright law does give the copyright holder the right not to publish, but laws can be changed - every extension to copyright is a change in the law, after all, if we can change the law for one purpose, we can change it for another. There should be some burden put on the copyright holder to demonstrate that the copyright is still valid: publish or perish.
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