content: Copyright law was intended to benefit us, the public.  Contract law requires consideration for both parties.  If not, then the contract is null & void.  The consideration for the public's end of copyright law was that we would get more works in the public domain.  The consideration for copyright holders was that our government would grant a temporary monopoly over their work.  The temporary part has been reneged on, and the public domain has not grown as promised.  Therefore, copyright law, if it were a contract, would be null & void. Regardless of the technicalities, we know that it is not fair.  Their temporary, government enforced, monopoly (copyright) is not a right.  It is a privilege that "we the people" granted them for more works in the public domain based on the promise that it would be a bargain for us.  Instead, not only has the rate of works entering the public domain decreased, copyright law is abused to hold technological progress back in order to protect the profits of the very entities that have reneged on the promise of copyright law.