Copyright is a right. Having to pay for it sounds absurd. I have a much simpler solution: copyright terms are fourteen years from date of publication. There ar

Copyright is a right. Having to pay for it sounds absurd. I have a much simpler solution: copyright terms are fourteen years from date of publication. There are no extensions. It could even be a lot shorter nowadays. Nearly all media gets nearly all of its profit in the first year. A lot of commercial software goes out of date in a few months rather than yearly releases.