The copyright owner determines that. Put some price on renewal and let the owner decide if they want to pay it or not. For the vast majority of content, it's worthless after x years and they will just let it lapse.
We could then shorten copyright down to something like 20 years and anything still being sold or used can be renewed while completely obsolete gameboy games become freed.
Even if the fee was something like $10/year, probably the majority of copyrights would not be renewed.
We could then shorten copyright down to something like 20 years and anything still being sold or used can be renewed while completely obsolete gameboy games become freed.
Even if the fee was something like $10/year, probably the majority of copyrights would not be renewed.