Copyright terms should be twenty years

Originally when copyright laws where first made twenty years was the length of how long copyright was. It was made for artists to make money of there work before it goes into the public domain..

But then lobbying happened and now it’s creators life plus ninety years.

Which doesn’t make much sense because dead people can’t exactly profit or make art.

The vast majority of profit for creative work happens for the first twenty years.

Plus most creatives work on IPs they don’t own at big corporations.

Copyright was never meant to have a creator be able to live off royalties for the rest of there life. Or have big corporations horde IPs like Smaug the dragon.

If copyright was twenty years big media conglomerates couldn’t profit over work made by exploited labor.

A work going into the public domain doesn’t stop the creators from being able to profit of it.

A Christmas Carol adaptions are still made and able to make money because that version of the story is still under protections.

While a Game of Thrones and the other old books would be public domain. Martin could still profit once he released the next book.

People wouldn’t be able to sit on IPs because they’d have completion to say make the best Star Wars film.

Remixes of art can lead to great things like the Muppets Christmas Carol.

Imagine with both the Muppets and Star Wars are in the public domain and you can make the Mippets Star Wars trilogy remake.