When it comes to asking for valuable concessions, these tend to require paying for.

If the extension is valuable, let anyone bid for the copyright and extension of each copyrighted work in a free market. The government can then collect the revenue on behalf of the public who would otherwise enjoy the value of the published works.

This way we can ensure that only works of no value end up in the public domain.

Hang on a mo! The whole point of copyright was to procure valuable works into the public domain.

Something’s gone terribly wrong.

It’s time to abolish copyright.

At this point, far from being a useful compromise, selective term extension would be a major concession.

Promoting term extension in the face of the leaked Gowers conclusions and against all the hard work that people in the UK are doing to oppose term extension is counterproductive at best.