[alstonite]

I'm pretty sure copyright law in it's current form was lobbied by the mouse company™ rather than individuals. > just because I recorded any bit of audio, put one mark on a paper, or created 1 frame of a motion picture What's your opinion on books, for example, where almost all the work was done by an individual? Do they deserve lifetime compensation or similar?

[tpmoney]

Disney might be a big name behind it, but don't let that fool you into thinking individuals haven't tried to shape this too, see Sonny Bono for one. But you can also look around at the current massive fight over AI and see a lot of individuals who are fighting very hard for stronger enforcement of copyright in its current form. Even here in the tech community we see a lot of people wanting to keep their public sites and code from being used in these models, which is a significant change from the "Information wants to be free" days of yore.

[tenebrisalietum]

IMHO it should be similar timeframes to patents, for all media types, and network infrastructure should not bear the responsibility to enforce it.

For things requiring lots of research and development, I think some mechanism should exist to document and extend the period, or "pay per year" scheme, but no longer than 30 years.