Copyright is about encouraging creation. I don't think that many people will not create because they are worried that they may not get discovered until after th

Copyright is about encouraging creation. I don't think that many people will not create because they are worried that they may not get discovered until after their copyright protection expires. In fact in cases like this the expiry of copyright may increase their visibility which may make this re-discovery more likely. Then they will be able to produce more with their newfound audience and profit off of that. > Or book authors whose work is picked up decades later This is an interesting one. I think this rings close to the "dilution" argument. Where movie studios will be more likely to wait until copyright expires than pay the author. I think this is a legitimate concern but I don't know how big of a deal it is. There are already many public domain works but studios still choose new stories where they need to pay the other. Obviously shorter copyright periods will shift this equation but IDK how much. Likely it makes sense to move slowly here, start at a high number like 80 years and slowly reduce it to see if this becomes a huge problem.