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Under capitalist society they have been turned to serve capitalists, and if we had a proper socialist society we would have no need for anything but credit to go to creators, but in the meantime if we were to build a dictatorship of the proletariat and enter the transitional phase of building communism I think the way forward on copyright would be a "worker first" rewrite of the whole system. Make it so that rights cannot be transfered to corporations, mandate reparations to copyright holders who were forced to sign away their rights under the old system, and establish a paradigm of shared ownership for the copyright of things produced by teams. Also shortening the term to reflect the speed that information moves in the digital era makes sense - something like five years is plenty.
Basically, I would want it rewritten with an explicitly class focused lens, to prevent the value of ideas from being extracted from those who produce them by the ruling class.