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US Government Targets Pirate Bay and Other 'Piracy Havens' (torrentfreak.com)
The US Government has listed some of the largest piracy websites and other copyright-infringing venues. The USTR calls on foreign countries to take action against popular piracy sites such as The Pirate Bay, which has important "symbolic value," according to the authorities. In addition, stream-ripping is mentioned as an emerging threat. TorrentFreak adds: The overview is largely based on input from industry groups including the RIAA and MPAA, who submitted their recommendations a few weeks ago. While the USTR admits that the list is not meant to reflect legal violations, the goal of the review is to motivate owners and foreign Governments to take appropriate action and reduce piracy. "The United States encourages all responsible authorities to intensify efforts to combat piracy and counterfeiting, and to use the information contained in the Notorious Markets List to pursue legal actions where appropriate," the USTR announced.
Two decades after the original artist's/etc demise would be fair. Perpetual copyright doesn't protect dead originators, and to make copyright perpetual changes it dramatically.
Maybe reconsider perpetual compensation? a perpetual right to prevent modification and ensure attribution, but to be paid forever? How do we reconcile this?
And corporations need to be a different case.
Music copyrights have nothing to do with the artist, therefore there is no correlation with the artist's lifetime. All music copyrights are owned by the Label (and RIAA member, if in the USA) which, as a corp[oration, has a theoretically infinite lifetime.
Passing the copyrights to the Label is a condition of every record contract. As an artist, either you are published, have a record release and have zero copyrights, or your are unpublished, unreleased, unknown and own them all, but no-one cares. There is such a thing as the Independent record release, which is an attempt to retain the copyrights by the artist(s), but you won't find those CDs for sale in most retailers or available as digital files on most mainstream download sites.