> With all that said, we shouldn't be hamstrung by what a deeply flawed group of people decided in the late 1700s. Bringing this back to the discussion at hand

> With all that said, we shouldn't be hamstrung by what a deeply flawed group of people decided in the late 1700s. Bringing this back to the discussion at hand, your point seems completely off the mark and basically irrelevant. The current copyright regime is nothing like what was created by those men hundreds of years ago. In the late 18th century after the country was founded, copyright was limited to 14 years plus another 14 year extension if the author was still alive. Going back to that would be a great idea.