I&#x27;ve thought the same thing.  This seems like a simple way to deal with it. And since most created works don&#x27;t make money, even fewer after X years this would seem to do the most &quot;public&quot; good while allowing Disney to keep Mickey.<p>This is especially true for software games where you can&#x27;t even get the hardware, thus software sales are essentially 0.  A lot of the older games will just get forgotten while the copyright runs out.  Some get remade and sold and have no problem with that.<p>Companies won&#x27;t like it though, because some will forget to register and loose out on potential profits.