This is, more or less, the solution advocated by the law professor James Boyle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boyle_(academic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

This is, more or less, the solution advocated by the law professor James Boyle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boyle_(academic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boyle_(academic) He wrote a good book, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (2008), which makes the case for radically shorter copyright terms.