How is software, music, or any other easily copied product created and distributed under your system?
Even air can be monetized if you have the right legal team and tech. And we're all random working class people who can't afford a good lawyer even when we need it so... go figure.
Copying is built into all of our hardware/software. To keep extending copyright you have to either end privacy or neuter hardware/software.
Sounds like a recipe for many people to avoid sharing their digital creations with others. And your claim that those are the only two ways to give creators some control over their creations is absurd.
A new world is struggling to be born; this is the time of monsters.
Capital WILL neuter all software and hardware to make their reality happen. Capital WILL make more and more invasive systems if it means a whole industry can stay alive. They can lobby, we cant. They have the money to influence, we dont. We have voices, but why would they listen to voices when they have profits?
Voting with your dollar is the biggest lie out there if you live in a monopoly system where you only get a few options or if you can't afford anything else. They are literally building digital prisons but people say its fine because we can choose the size of the cell and the color of the walls.