Comment by gwbas1c

You must not be familiar with how copyright works.

Most copyrights are works for hire and owned by a corporation.

Your proposal would only work for unpublished works, and self-published works.

Personally, once I think a work is made available to the general public, it needs to enter the public domain, or enter a period of compulsory licensing, after a predetermined period of time. It doesn't matter if the copyright is owned by an individual or a corporation.