Culture can't exist without reuse and adaptation. The natural state of affairs would be that anyone is free to see or listen to (etc) some content, and then ma

Culture can't exist without reuse and adaptation. The natural state of affairs would be that anyone is free to see or listen to (etc) some content, and then make marks on paper, or patterns of bits, or sound waves that are more or less faithful copies of that. Copyright is unnatural. It's not worth hashing out the arguments for or against it, or for or against any particular length, here. But the onus is clearly on supporters of long copyright terms to show how the benefits offset the downsides of restricting everyone else's freedoms in this way.