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I find it slightly humorous that someone would suggest that the very laws which first gave creators the chance to earn a living at their craft (without having to rely upon a benevolent patron) is now somehow preventing them from providing for their descendants. In the U.S., copyright has already been stretched and extended to greatly favor the the rights-holders over the public (who were supposed to benefit after the brief monopoly granted to the creators expired). They (the rights-holders) have already received far and away more benefit than what the biased, fallible, human element who originally drafted the original copyright laws ever envisioned. It is the public (copyright's other affected party) who have already had their benefits reduced to the point of being negligible. Authors are not the aggrieved party in this copyright/PD partnership by any means.
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