Basically a modern version of the US Copyright Act of 1790. 14 year terms with an automatic 14 year extension if the work is still in print and was in print for

Basically a modern version of the US Copyright Act of 1790. 14 year terms with an automatic 14 year extension if the work is still in print and was in print for say 10 out of 14 years of the initial term. If it isn't made available in the country, it isn't under copyright. If you "assign" your copyright to somebody else, you have the right to revoke said "assignment" at any time and reclaim your copyright. Publishers should only be allowed to publish under a license from the creator and should be banned from being able to steal the copyright to the work from the creator via deceptive contracts. Corporate copyright should only be allowed if the work was actually the work of the corporation rather than the work of an individual or unincorporated group of individuals. Patent law would, ideally, be abolished altogether as I'm not convinced that other types of patents are any more legitimate than software patents. Trademarks should not expire, of course, but there should be restrictions on what you can trademark to protect the public domain (for example, the mouse corporation shouldn't be able to evade the copyright term limits by trademarking its characters).