I wish I could get paid for something I did 20 years ago. Maybe you should consider that the purpose of copyright law was not to provide you and your kids a revenue stream for life but rather to encourage free thought and exchange of ideas by providing a limited period of protection before a work became public ___domain. The original copyright term when congress passed the first copyright law was 14 years. But greedy entertainment industry attorneys have been able to pay off congress over the years and have the terms extended, until now, thanks to the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act, the expiration of copyright is effectively gone. In fact nothing will enter the public ___domain for decades now.

So maybe instead of complaining that the average Joe's of the world need to listen to more commercials or pay you more for something you did 20 years ago you could put that energy into something new. It amazes me that we can pay teachers and law enforcement people $40,000 a year and hear about how high taxes are, but then society sees no problem with someone making millions of dollars off of an album...or throwing a football around for a dozen games a year.