[cliveholloway]

I think for the people in general to respect copyright, they need to have something to respect. 100 years is ridiculous. And it's unrealistic. Basically it gives certain companies a right to print money. It's particularly egregious that Disney built up a huge pile of their "intellectual property" by stealing stories that, in this day and age, would cost them a fortune to license.

Copyright used to be for 25 years. In this day and age, that is an eternity. Back when it was implemented, it was probably a little more relevant - with the distribution of media being a lot slower and organic.

If copyright was for 7 years, with the option to renew for another 7 years (for a period of time - say up to 21 years total), that would protect the rights of content creators, whilst letting work that is deemed worthless to fall back into the public domain. And NO ONE could hijack our culture in perpetuity.

What is this COICA going to do for the consumer? For society?