Producing new things is happening faster every year. Literally a book can be written in a day, published electronically the same day and published overnight.

30 years longer than the term when the country was founded.

Surely the term should be going down, not up.

I have three ideas:

1. A short flat term, say 3 years, after which the work becomes public domain

Or

2. Copyright is not automatic. You have to publish the work to the Library of Congress and the publication fee is $1000 for one year. You can extend as long as you like but each additional year costs 10x what the previous year cost (pick your favorite exponential values)

Or

3. You get your choice of copyright as we have today XOR non-discriminatory non-DRM distribution. That is, you can choose copyright protection under todays laws, but if you do, you may not use any form of DRM or exclusive licensing and you must make your content available to all distributors at the same price. Or, you can distribute however you want and DRM however you want, but your content will not receive copyright protections.

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These all balance the enforcement costs and societal costs of copyright with the right to be remunerated for creative work, and take into account that creation is faster than ever before.