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Agreed. When it comes to copyright, I am arriving at the opinion that copyright should be lost after 20 years. No exceptions.
If the time is limited, copyright represents a limited opportunity, not a long-term cash cow. A work will then be more of an event than oil well, and as a result, creators might get offered a bigger slice of the pie for the opportunity they created. Also, (and I feel this way about patents too) each time that copyright ownership is transferred, I think the remaining time for the copyright should be cut in half. This puts the creator in the driving seat, and diminishes the ability to treat copyrights as currency.