>>insane+(OP)
Copyright was supposed to protect a small inventor or maker for a short period of time. But as those small makers became corporations and they lobbied for and were able to keep increasing the copyright periods from a few years to decades after the death of the individual the actual essence of the reason for copyright is gone. I am of the opinion that copyright apart from a fixed term should also have a form of value tax. So if the government is allowing you to have a monopoly on something you should pay a yearly tax on its valuation. And if it is not worth it to pay the copyright yearly tax to keep the copyright then the work is released to the commons.