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I have to disagree, no right to control a creation for the rest of your life, a short set term is the only fair thing for society, once you publish you've given a work to the world. If you want to try to make a buck that's fair I'd go as far as 28+28, if you can't make money off of your creation over 56 years you're just not gonna. This allows things created in your lifetime to enter the public domain in your lifetime and that's what maters, that's why we have copyright, not to protect your ability to profit but to offer you a chance at it in order to get more work for the public domain.
Because of constant extensions no work has entered the public domain at all since I've been born. Copyright laws as they are harm society. Why should my taxes go to enforcement, go to pay any judge working a copyright case if society will never get anything out of it. The works of Shakespeare belong to me now, and you, they can be remixed rewritten expanded abridged folded mutilated and spindled in any way for any reason and maybe a lucky someone will make something cool out of them to add to the shared culture like say west side story. When do I get that with works from the 1935?
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