Well most know my thoughts on the matter, I along with most folks don't mind paying the copyright tax for a sensible period of time to allow for the creative artists to make some revenues, but the recording industry wants to recoup a few thousands times its investments all the whilst dragging its heels and finding tax fiddles to avoid paying the artists we all want to support.
Such a selfish and "banker" style business model doesn't sit well with either the public nor the artists themselves but most artist feel peer pressured into signing away their rights to these shylocks of the entertainment industry, even famous artists such as Paul McCartney have been ripped off wholesale when some of his song rights where sold off by the record company the Beatles where signed to and subsequently sold them on, a simple measure of the term of copyright should be that there be a chance for folks to hear a work in the public domain before they expire, this then suggests that a term of between 20 to 50 years is more than enough for the banker model used by the recording industry to make back their investment capital plus profits, no one else in life has a guaranteed investment paid for by a "copyright" tax on Joe public so why should the music fat cats be any different.
