First: I entirely agree with you regarding DRM. Second: the &quot;baseless framework&quot; of property rights is how it has worked for centuries. Hardly baseless. The new world is the exception and I don&#x27;t see how it has materially changed the rights of a creator to their own works.<p>I will say that our current system is extremely broken with regard to the public domain, primarily because of things like DRM and intellectual property, both of which I believe are harmful to society as a whole. I also believe copyright had been extended for way too long. These are things we should push hard to change because I agree, they break the implicit agreement that justifies copyright.<p>But in the world you are imagining, every new work of any kind would have to be registered with someone to make sure the sources are made public when the copyright expires. Then of course, you would have the massive enforcement effort to ensure the sources actually get released. Little Jimmy starts working a little game on his parents&#x27; computer? Better register that with the copyright office so the sources don&#x27;t get lost in ten years when the copyright expires. It&#x27;s ridiculous. That&#x27;s not the way it works and its not the way it should work.