Many people though that 95 or life plus 70 years are far too long. Intellectual property rights are far different than physical property rights. If I own a copyrighted work, let say, I create Samisonial, the Black haired Dwarf with white skin with a blue hat who lives in an enchanted forest with Mobly the hairy dude searching for the five magical rocks.

Now that I have produced that work, it’s now copyrighted for 95 years. See, it took me, less than a few minutes to come up with that idea, and now my work is locked up. take a look at it, I would be profiting from that work.

But when you take a work and provide an extensively long amounts of time, think of how much damage I am doing to the freedom of the public and the future of the artists, who want to use a piece of my work 50 years from now, when I am just plain lazy and greedy and want more money. Think about it. The longer the term is, the LESS work artists will create, and the less channels of entertainment the public will get.

So, under a 20 year term act, I retire Samisonial, the dwarf, and decided to create Runnitoid, the golden living gnome, with 35 other gnomes (A sort ove ficitional creature I created), which lives on a cloud that has a fiend, Grucella, an evil knight that loves to eat golden creatures. In the end, this is very popular, and I get lots of money.

You see, as a result of more creativity (as a result of the shorter copyright term), artists are more skilled and that potentially, better works come out, resulting not only in more works released, but ultimately, more works in the public domain, and ultimately, upholding the freedom of speech. Furthermore, I can just re-create the old work that has been fallen into the public domain and call that copyrighted work, yet the older work remains in the public domain.

I truely think that the extensive copyright terms are a result of greedy media giants who don’t even create the works, but bought them out of artists, leaving the artists only a cent royalty and the media getting the money.