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I am thinking more like 2 year for copyright, 3 for patent, no patents/copyright (If they somehow managed that) available for software, anything remotely medical, crop/food production. Make trademark limited to 10 years, and they can go only after large-scale international abuse of trademark (50,000+ employees) etc. Highly strengthened parody use for patent/copyright... with a clause that states if there is any attempting to stop truthful reviews (Negative or otherwise), they lose there patient, with a decision that on each charge must be made within two months (Burden of proof on the company, not the accuser). Finally force copyright rules for on commercial use only (Not Sharing), and burden of proof on company, with only an amount of fine available based purely upon what was taken (Must also be proven, should have a set of guild-lines for this also). Allow a company to use there profits tax free (up to 20%), if you for traditional research in there companies own field (However, not for things like market research, trend research (We don't want any free running advertisers)). Law making it so university can sell there research while under copyright/patent period and not have it controlled (Variance for military research only). IE: I mean they can sell it to anyone/ and however many people they like. Likewise a business should be able to sell there in house research, however, unlike the university once they sell they lose there copyright/patent protection immediately. Government research (Or any research that has any payment from taxpayer (Save again classified/military) should get no copyright/patent and be freely made available to the public use/corporate use. If a technology is complex, the rule should also be made so there can be no hindering of teaching/modification (For Private Use) of a full technology (Note: Does not apply to a work of art). No DRM, or locking down of software or devices. Any locking of devices which can be proven, should be treated under criminal law as market collusion. This can be even extended to that if custom OSes are made which only operated on certain devices only certain carrier carry. Furthermore all drivers & codecs, shall be made open source for compatibility. Otherwise any self locking driver for devices/or codec for file-type can be considered locking and thus treated as collusion.

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