That's my original point though. Copyright law, in it's current form, is not doing much to benefit you as an individual creator. There's no good societal reason for creative works to be protected for a century; the only ones that benefit in that scenario are corporations. Allowing temporary monopolies over creative works for 20, 30, even 40 years is beneficial to creators, but at some point that benefit flips to stifling new creation at the benefit of large corporations.