I personally think copyright can be a good thing. My beef is with the never ending length extensions and that everything including the piece of napkin I used to

I personally think copyright can be a good thing. My beef is with the never ending length extensions and that everything including the piece of napkin I used to doodle on earlier is covered by it. I think the solution is more to push for it to become registration based and offer companies a way to extend the copyright for a fee that increases exponentially with time. Lets say the first 10 years is free everything after starts to cost you more and more. That way I feel that you let things like orphan works be preserved and used even if they are not longer worth enough money to keep under copyright and publish. Also have the database of what is under copyright be available to everyone so that right holders can be located and licensing can be made easier. These records can be maintain with the money obtain from copyrighting fees. And also, fix issues with fair use such as breaking DRM being made not illegal.