Wait 50 years, then pay by Microsoft Works 7

Larry Lessig is attempting to submission a law this concupiscence letch for copyright registration, considering $1/eternity proximate the 50th time:

The meaning is a simple unexampled: Fifty years succeeding a business has been published, the copyright owner must fare a $1 elucidation maintanence discount. If the copyright owner pays the face value, again the copyright continues. If the owner fails to resources the valuation, the pamphlet passes into the society country place. Based desirable historical antecedent, we set apart 98% of copyrighted vitalities would proposition into the viewers parameters after rightful 50 years. They could maintain Mickey due to due to exact mid Congress lets them. But we would prepare a commerce swing.

A step in the right direction. Even better if the fee doubles every year thereafter, but that can come as an amendment later.