I'm a fan of copyrights. While I think that the USA's implementation of copyrights has a few glaring flaws (namely, the duration of copyright is far too long). I firmly believe that the elimination, or effective elimination of copyrights is massively detrimental to our culture.

A fair middle ground would be for copyrights to last for 20 or so years. That's plenty of time to profit from a work while allowing people to preserve and distribute older works.