I’m all for reasonable exclusive rights to created content, protected by the courts, in exchange for that content becoming the public domain after a short number of years.
The present legalistic scenario is the author’s lifetime plus seventy years.
Make it fifteen years; long enough to make a profit off the original work, short enough to actually make it an exchange. Either that, or simply disband the copyright office if no one is willing to make this exchange as conceptualized by the founding fathers.
Emphasis on "present". Big Media gets congress to extend this routinely whenever some of the big properties are about to expire. The Supreme Court has basicly ruled that the contitiutional protection of "limited copyrights" means any time frame that isn't perpetual. Much better gig than patents.