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Copyright needs to go back to 30 years. You have 30 years on a patent to make money off it. If you haven't already made your money back, and a handsome profit in that time, you should have hired a business manager year 2.
Patents are either 14 or 20 years, depending on type. Copyright is absurdly long, but copyright also doesn't apply to drugs, inventions, recipes, game rules, mathematical formulae - mostly just creative works.
Ok, 14 to 20 years on patents seems reasonable. I would still set copyright back to 30 years, since as you pointed out, it's really only affecting the public domain.
I'd be okay with that, but acting like copyright doesn't exist for a reason or ever do any good... Isn't helping actually lead to a solution :)