Any time anyone says, "So, what's so bad about copyrights lasting forever, anyway?", I ask them, "So, how would you feel if infinite copyright laws had been instituted in Shakespeare's time? Or Homer's? How much MORE fucked up would our current domination of the media by a precious few be, if the heirs of Shakespeare and Ovid and Hesiod and all the others could demand creative control over, and receive royalty checks from, every single adaptation of those works for hundreds of years?"