100, author+50, or author+70 years is absolutely absurd rent-seeking corporate greed that subsumed the protections of individual creators because of damn corporate personhood. Copyright should exist for a period of 2x "life sentence" used by Scandinavian criminal courts: 42 years. No extensions, no exceptions.
As a copyright abolitionist I think 10 years is an alright compromise if alternative funding models really don't work out.
Long enough to be painful enough to spend money, short enough that you can build upon the previous decade's work. If you have a childhood show, once you become a young adult, you can build on it legally. Simple to calculate too!
Nothing but greed will break if it becomes 3 years. On the contrary, IMO this will actually considerably reduce piracy, because things entering public domain would be something one can wait for. You either go to a cinema to see the hot new movie right now, or you see it legally for free in 3 years.
My fear is that shortening copyright now won’t do anything to stem corporate greed at all, but it would let the corporations pillage all the modern works of the massive sea of independent artists and individual creators while they’re still alive and trying to make a living.
