It's time to abolish copyright. It doesn't benefit society.
Why doesn’t it benefit society when it is the basis for compensation for large and important creative industries? Maybe it lasts too long given that the life of the author plus decades results in protection lasting longer than necessary to incentivize authors to create works.
There's a lot protected by IP law that has real impact on people's lives, like textbooks or anything medical, and that we're in theory capable of unlimited distribution for better-than-free (in that the resources currently being put into preventing distribution exceed the resources that would be needed for distribution) but instead restrict to a comparatively tiny number of people in order for profit to be extracted.
I don't know whether or not other methods of creating an "incentive", like public funding, will work as full replacements - but I think it's worth acknowledging how much is being left on the table. An immense amount of waste and even death could be prevented if there's a viable way to tear down significant portions of IP law.