Too efffing bad.
Copyright was meant to last fourteen years. Extendable once.
How about if the builders of every bridge and every road get tolls in perpetuity?
Lets put this thing in the courts and see if both of them can’t come out bankrupt.
You really think living authors shouldn’t receive royalties from continuing sales of their work?
No, copyright should be at least for the life of the writer; to compare a book to a bridge is ludicrous.