We should return to the Act of Anne copyright terms: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=3389 https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.ph

We should return to the Act of Anne copyright terms: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=3389 https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=3389 "The Statute of Anne granted publishers of books legal protection for 14 years with the commencement of the statute. It also granted 21 years of protection for any book already in print. At the expiration of the first 14 year copyright term the copyright re-vested in its author, if he or she were still alive, for a further term of 14 years." There is no good reason for it to be any longer than that and certainly it should expire with the death of the author because the purpose of copyright is (or at least was): " ... for the Encouragement of Learned Men to Compose and Write useful Books; ... " and they can't do that after they have died.