If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed
Copyright law needs to change.<p>Back in the day, a copyright measured in decades made sense, because it took that long to promote and distribute a work and derive reasonable profit from it.<p>Today that process takes days, maybe months (apart from the rare work that languishes, only to be &quot;discovered&quot; later).<p>Copyright should be much shorter -- a couple years at most -- with renewal available if the creator really believes the work has yet to find its audience.<p>The standard for abandoned works still protected under the existing system should default against the (potential) holder of the original copyright as long as a good-faith effort was made to reach them, and damages should amount to some sort of split of the profits.