My opinion is that any type of art starts as its own isolated creation but becomes a part of the culture at large as it ages. Copyright should end after 10 years, or 20 years if the creator manually renews it near the end of the 10 years. After 20 years, we should all "own" it, because it has transcended the creator and become part of our childhoods, our earlier adult years, and more generally our formation as human beings. I should absolutely be free to use music from when I was in high school in a new video today. I should be able to hand out copies of the DOS version of Lemmings or Duke Nukem or DOOM with no possibility of legal action.,(reply>), @John Negri It's actually a lot longer than that, typically the life of the author plus 70 years. For a person who creates something at 30 and dies at 80, that's 120 years of no one but the author and their estate being legally allowed to distribute or authorize the distribution of their works.<br><br>Also, Rick Beato makes excellent videos.,(reply>), As I understand it, copywritten material becomes a part of the public domain after 100 years. Given the rapidity of the digital lifespan for any creation, I don’t think 25 years would be unreasonable at all. Rick Beato, for example, has been fighting this battle in the domain of music. as he is the only exposure to some of the music from the 60s and 70s that most young people will ever see. The shortsighted music labels don’t even want the revenue from his educational videos and they simply demand that he take them down. It won’t be long before no one knows who any of those artists were or of their musical contributions. Point being that it would be best interest to utilize their old material to generate interest. There wouldn’t be the deluge of piracy and lost revenue that these corporations claim. I was kind of sad a few years ago when I tried to show a friend’s son PS1 and PS2 games because he was 14 and really into gaming. He just thought they looked stupid and didn’t even play anything. There wouldn’t be near the interest that the inflated egos of the greedy corporations believe there would be