Quote:"Five years" is not sane.
"Life of the artist" is sane.
I don't think life of the artists is particularly sane or usefull. For a large movie who is the artists in question? The longest lived one? what about Windows or other software? Also that gives works at the end of ones life very little while at the begining it gives a lot. This also makes investments in works very uncertain.
A fixed term makes much more sense, and then the question is how long. I think 5 years is long enough, but reasonable people can disagree with me. I have seen economic studies arguing that the ideal copyright term is anywhere from 2 to 15 years. I think 15 years is too long, but it would be the longest copyright term I would support. However I think that replacing the fixed term of copyright with a flexible term would be better, where each year of copyright protection costs at least twice as much as the previous year. as long as the values are properly chosen and adjusted for inflation it should enforce reasonable copyright terms by itself, giving longer copyright to more valuable works. However a big problem with that would be the small artists and open source software, to name just two things which would have a hard time paying for copyright protection.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."