2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought
In my opinion, the best solution for everyone involved is to allow companies to renew copyrights annually into perpetuity after an initial period, but charge a non-trivial renewal fee and increase it with every renewal.If you're a company like Disney, renewing certain properties should really make you think after it starts to cut into the balance sheet. Most works wouldn't generate enough revenue to justify the renewal and would fall into the public domain. Disney wouldn't be holding thousands of unrelated works hostage.