I'm in favour of increasing the fixed length and decreasing the variable length.
So something like the longer of 50 years or the lifetime of the author would be my preference.
We used to have roughly that scheme in the UK from around 1840 to 1900. Then we signed up to the Berne convention for lifetime+50. Sigh.
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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Before I go further: My own income is 100% from writing and I am a parent, so I do have a horse in this race.
I believe that copyright should exist, and that it should be heritable. However I also believe that current copyright terms are too long: I think something like either 42 years fixed or Life+28 would be reasonable, but I may be erring on the side of shortness.
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