I always thought an easy solution amenable to people and companies is you should have to pay to keep up the copyright after a certain time. Maybe start copyrig

I always thought an easy solution amenable to people and companies is you should have to pay to keep up the copyright after a certain time. Maybe start copyright at 40 years. If you find the work valuable you could register to extend it. If you don't find it valuable and don't bother to register the work it falls into public domain. Seems like an easy solution.